Lead bullets for speed steel?

[Kiwi cop]

Yesterday I fired off a few 100 gn 9mm LRNFP in my Tanfoglio CZ copy fitted to a carbine frame and noticed a lot of "smoke" discharge from the end of the barrel. Not enough to totally obscure the target but with plated bullets in the same gun I get little or no discharge.

A short time later a very experienced shooter told me he was going to load lead bullets for steel challenge speed shooting (he has a lifetime supply of jacketed bullets so I'm not sure why he wants to shoot lead).

Didn't speed shooter go away from lead bullets for faster target acquisition?

 

[Protocall_Design]

The bullet lube makes a lot of smoke, which can make it hard to see the targets under some conditions. A lot of the lead bullet shooters have gone to polymer coated bullets. They don't have all the smoke that the lubed bullets have. The White Label carnuba wax bullet lube is low smoke for lubed bullets.

 

[Nevada Ed]

Why would a shooter want to fight a cloud of smoke to see the targets.....
when the was an almost no smoke bullet or better....
that was out there?

Most of use that don't "Pour", are trying to burn up our lead supply
for the newer "Red Bullet" style, that is easier to clean up.

One pass with your pet snake, and it is a done deal, almost.