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Poquito Loco

On Fri, 02 Jan 2015 22:44:36 -0500, 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.

It's not the case that's the problem, it's the bullet. If a magnet
sticks, it's not allowed. The one and only box of Tula 9mm I bought
did not pass the magnet test. And, the way the range guy new I was
shooting bad stuff was when he saw sparks as rounds hit the floor. He
hadn't checked my ammo before I went to my lane, as they usually do,
and I didn't know any better.