Missouri bullet

[attrapereves]

Does anyone use Missouri Bullets in their M&P9? I fired some of their 124gr LRN "smallball" and am getting leading. They are loaded to around 1025fps. Any ideas?

 

[derek45auto]

Get a copper kitchen scrubber, cut some and wrap it around an old bore brush.

A couple of passes back and forth will clean it out with ease


( make sure its COPPER, some of them are copper plated steel, which would be a bad thing )

 

[Moonman]

Try some of Missouri Bullet NEW HI-TEK coated bullets instead
of the CONVENTIONAL WAXY LUBED ones.

 

[retired_diver]

I have use and still do Missouri bullets in 115gr for 9mm and 155gr in 40sw, 158gr in 357mag and 240gr in 44mag. I have noticed some leading in 44mag but I just use a lewis lead remover thru the barrel and it cleans up in one or two passes. I have switched to plated bullets for any thing over 1100fps recently.

 

[1911Teacher]

Try some of Missouri Bullet NEW HI-TEK coated bullets instead
of the CONVENTIONAL WAXY LUBED ones.

Great advice.

 

[JBnTx]

I use the Missouri Bullet Company 125 Grain Hi-Tek 9MM Cone bullets.

Hi-Tek coating is the way to go for shooting cast bullets in 9mm.
No leading and they are super accurate in my HK pistols.

 

[SMSgt]

I use MBC 124s in my 9mms and haven't had a lead problem. Mild load of HP-38 is the powder.

 

[NevadaBob]

Have you slugged your barrel? My M&P FS 9mm comes in at 0.356 necessitating a 0.357 bullet.

 

[gboling]

I coat MB' 147gr with liquid Alox. But I probably will not buy them again.

 

[Clovishound]

I struggled with lead bullets in 9mm for a while. I managed to finally find a combo that produced only mild leading in my 9mm. Then ran out of Universal and could not find it on the shelves for love nor money.

I finally came to the conclusion that I was swimming upstream against a heavy current. I will only shoot plated, or perhaps try coated, bullets through my 9 now. The cost difference isn't that big, and I can use a wide variety of powders with plated.

 

[peterthefish]

The reality is, unless you go to the trouble of getting cast bullets of appropriate size and hardness for your gun and powder, you'll get leading. Even a good combo will lead a little.

I recently went to coated cast (MBC HiTek, Bayou, Blue Bullets) and will likely never buy plain cast bullets again, and have cut way down on what I buy for plated. No leading, no copper fouling, and the reduced powder charge that goes with shooting cast lead. Best of all worlds.

I do like the MBC cast 185 SWCs in .45 and have a great bullseye load for them that I haven't yet been able to replicate with the Coated bullets I've tried yet, but I'm more likely to continue trying than I am to buy another box of plain cast lead bullets.