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Keyser Söze

On 1/2/15 10:44 PM, wrote:
On 2 Jan 2015 17:25:25 GMT, Keyser Söze wrote:

Might have been cabelas...but it expired. There's wolf gold out there for
27 or 28 cents...brass and non steel bullets...as good as the 55 grain
federal. Not Russian wolf.

I just pulled a Tula 9mm round apart. The jacket is some ferrous metal
but it is pretty soft and I got no sparks with a Dremel tool when I
cut the jacket open. The core seems to be lead.
The case was Berdan primed and full of some disk type powder.
I can see that this might wear a bore faster than regular gilding
metal but I am not sure how much that would actually be.
I see no issue with "sparks" or other things that might make it more
dangerous in a range, inside or out.

I have never heard them say a thing at our range (outside) and I see a
lot of those OD steel cases laying around.

Do you think your experiment in bullet disassembly fairly duplicates
what happens when a high speed steel round strikes an indoor range
backstop in terms of sparks? I don't know. Or maybe steel bullets
fragment more dangerously than non-ferrous bullets?

I have seen vids of barrels sawn in half lengthwise after heavy use of
steel versus lead bullets, and the barrels that shot steel showed much
heavier wear.

As for steel versus brass versus aluminum cartridge cases, I can only
guess the steel cases, being harder, cause more wear to the internals of
the firearm, but that shouldn't be an issue for the range. When I was
shooting 9mm, I bought a lot of aluminum-cased ammo and never had a
problem with it. It cycled fine in my semi-autos.