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<blockquote data-quote="J E Custom" data-source="post: 587341" data-attributes="member: 2736"><p>The ones I made were 95% copper and 5% zinc and they worked great.</p><p></p><p>Copper was to soft and fouled badly and brass was to hare and I had to machine bands</p><p>on them to get any accuracy.</p><p></p><p>The 95/5 bullets engraved well and did not foul any worse than jacketed bullets.</p><p></p><p>I ended up losing 1 in 7 because of dia. tolerance but they out shot anything I could find</p><p></p><p>The probablem was they were no good for hunting I could not produce a quality hollow </p><p>point for expansion and maintain the exact weight.</p><p></p><p>As stated factory Mono metal bullets range as much as 1 to 2 grains in weight and have to </p><p>be sorted by weight for consistant accuracy and it's hard to put together 20 of the same </p><p>weight from a box of 100.</p><p></p><p>IMO it is not cost effective because of the cost of a CNC machine (You can buy a lot of </p><p>bullets for that much money and any other way to make them is to time consuming.</p><p></p><p>J E CUSTOM</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="J E Custom, post: 587341, member: 2736"] The ones I made were 95% copper and 5% zinc and they worked great. Copper was to soft and fouled badly and brass was to hare and I had to machine bands on them to get any accuracy. The 95/5 bullets engraved well and did not foul any worse than jacketed bullets. I ended up losing 1 in 7 because of dia. tolerance but they out shot anything I could find The probablem was they were no good for hunting I could not produce a quality hollow point for expansion and maintain the exact weight. As stated factory Mono metal bullets range as much as 1 to 2 grains in weight and have to be sorted by weight for consistant accuracy and it's hard to put together 20 of the same weight from a box of 100. IMO it is not cost effective because of the cost of a CNC machine (You can buy a lot of bullets for that much money and any other way to make them is to time consuming. J E CUSTOM [/QUOTE]
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