Need Some Help With a Bullet

[USMCDOC]

Lots of good information there, another with even more info is LOS ANGELES SILHOUETTE CLUB web site. This place is a mind boggling treasure trove of cast bullet information, especially the stuff by Glen Frixel.

Thank for that

 

[watercam]

Buy Zero 185 gr. SWCHP from either Rozedist or Powder Valley and stop looking. Excellent bullet. Powder Valley has them for about $47/500 count or 2000/count depending. They make a solid nose SWC in 185 gr. and 200gr. as well as jacketed bullets.

 

[Baddog0302]

The kinda look like they have been "moly" coated, being as they are not a normal cast bullet color. There is also https://www.mp-molds.com/
But if you don't cast your own

 

[USMCDOC]

The kinda look like they have been "moly" coated, being as they are not a normal cast bullet color. There is also https://www.mp-molds.com/
But if you don't cast your own

That's more really the road that i want to travel.. i can get lead at a buck a pound.. but then i can take the copper to the scrap house.. 2 bucks a pound i think it is, i could be wrong there..

 

[Deleted outa08]

Some time back, when i was shooting competitively, a fella gave me some .45 ACP ammo. Just about every .45 ACP that i have shot this load in, it would just group so well. I have acquired another .45 pistolie.. what i want to know is, is there a mold or a maker of a similar bullet to this one. From what i do understand, this bullet was made from a special order mold. i will have to take one apart to find out how much powder is in it.
Weight of the bullet if i remember correctly is 185, but it could be 200, but i have a feeling it is a 185.

Any help would be great and appreciated.
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Hey DOC , I read everyones posts and I agree the bullet looks like a H&G # 68.That was THE bullet we used at Fort Harmar In Ohio for IPSC 1978-79.A few of the shooters would cast their own, but I bought mine from a retired guy that cast and sold lead bullets.Little side note, Ken Hackathorn shot that bullet in his .45 acp. He lived in Marietta ,Ohio at that time. Later,I need coffee. Jeff

 

[USMCDOC]

Hey DOC , I read everyones posts and I agree the bullet looks like a H&G # 68.That was THE bullet we used at Fort Harmar In Ohio for IPSC 1978-79.A few of the shooters would cast their own, but I bought mine from a retired guy that cast and sold lead bullets.Little side note, Ken Hackathorn shot that bullet in his .45 acp. He lived in Marietta ,Ohio at that time. Later,I need coffee. Jeff

yes..this is the impression i have garnered.. H&G #68.. i have also learned that there are several variations to that design as well.

 

[Steve Ladino]

Some time back, when i was shooting competitively, a fella gave me some .45 ACP ammo. Just about every .45 ACP that i have shot this load in, it would just group so well. I have acquired another .45 pistolie.. what i want to know is, is there a mold or a maker of a similar bullet to this one. From what i do understand, this bullet was made from a special order mold. i will have to take one apart to find out how much powder is in it.
Weight of the bullet if i remember correctly is 185, but it could be 200, but i have a feeling it is a 185.

Any help would be great and appreciated.
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Lots of very good .452 bullets out there for the1911. After many years of Bullseye shooting my best accuracy came from bullets that weighed the same.

 

[USMCDOC]

Lots of very good .452 bullets out there for the1911. After many years of Bullseye shooting my best accuracy came from bullets that weighed the same.

 

[stork]

Depending on the age of them, they could be some of the Star 185 swaged HP. Star closed a few years back, but made an excellent bullet for accuracy. The closest I've found is the Zero 185 swaged HP and the 200 swaged SWC. Actually the same bullet physically, but when they create the cavity for the HP on their 200's they remove 15 grains, hence 185's.

They're definitely not H&G 68's. I own & use both the molds for the H&G 68 in flat base and bevel base. An excellent bullet design along with the Lyman 460. All are capable of under 1 1/2" @ 50 yards with a well built 1911 and good casting technique.

 

[USMCDOC]

Depending on the age of them, they could be some of the Star 185 swaged HP. Star closed a few years back, but made an excellent bullet for accuracy. The closest I've found is the Zero 185 swaged HP and the 200 swaged SWC. Actually the same bullet physically, but when they create the cavity for the HP on their 200's they remove 15 grains, hence 185's.

They're definitely not H&G 68's. I own & use both the molds for the H&G 68 in flat base and bevel base. An excellent bullet design along with the Lyman 460. All are capable of under 1 1/2" @ 50 yards with a well built 1911 and good casting technique.

i believe that i was given them about, 2009, but i believe that the fella that gave them to me, had had them for a while too..

 

[USMCDOC]

they were loaded in Starline brass

 

[9146gt]

Star 185 swaged JHPSWC with orginal black lube. Star Master ammo i believe.

Jim Russel at Star bullets made the molds for these that were sold to Zero and Precision Delta. The new load was with no so messy Carnuba lube. When i was still in Indy in the mid 90's used to stop at Star and buy all my .45 and .38 projectiles there.
Tom

 

[divingin]

The second NOE is a semi-custom mold manufacturer that has a huge variety of molds listed with many having interchangeable pin inserts to have flat point, cup point or hollow point bullets.

Also, pins for the other end to get hollow base bullets.

Almost makes me want to start casting.