Every time I turn around another bullet manufacturer is getting on the 500 S&W bandwagon. This should be great news offering variety as well as competitive prices. Earlier I counted 7 manufacturers offering bullets in the diameter that should fit the .500 S&W Magnum. (Hey Beartooth, did you hear that?)
Often I run into .50 AE and .50 Beowulf. Has anyone tried out any of these bullets in the S&W Magnum?
Every time I turn around another bullet manufacturer is getting on the 500 S&W bandwagon. This should be great news offering variety as well as competitive prices. Earlier I counted 7 manufacturers offering bullets in the diameter that should fit the .500 S&W Magnum. (Hey Beartooth, did you hear that?)
Often I run into .50 AE and .50 Beowulf. Has anyone tried out any of these bullets in the S&W Magnum?
I have loaded and fired nearly 500 rounds of the Rainier JFP 335grain bullets (originaly made for the 50 Bewoulf), and have had a lot of success with them.
First it should be noted though that these bullets have no canelure ring and I approached loading them with caution as there have been warnings about the bullets "walking out" of the remaining cases while being fired. After some carefull reading on the Rainier Balistics website I found that the copper jacket was designed to be a little softer than most others, so I decided to use a few in some mild loads. I have found these bullets to be VERY economical, accurate, and have never had any problems with them as of yet. I do crimp them slightly, and I dont push it to the max (most of the time I use Titegroup), but I have made some fairly stout loads using H4227 with excellent results. These are my "plinking" bullets (12 - 15 grains of Titegroup); I can shoot them all day and have no difficulties (physical or otherwise), and keep the cost down .
I have tried some others, and my favorite so far is the Sierra 400 grain JSP, it's the same on that Corbon uses. This weight seems to be very versitile: It can achieve energy that rivals and even surpasses the heavier bullets given the parameters listed in the Hogdon data. I have yet to use it on anything but paper and tires as of yet, but I am very interested to see how it performs on something large.
Once we move and I am settled once again I would like to try some of the moulds out there that produce bullets heavier than the 440s. Mountain Moulds makes some of apparently high quality, with weights as much as 620 grains. Before I order those though, I think I will check out what BTB has in the way of cast bullets and try some more shapes and sizes to help me decide on what I want for a mould.
Mountain Moulds does indeed have very fine moulds and will make them to YOUR specs as long as they'll fit in the blocks. They are very reasonably priced too.
Smokinjoe said:
Once we move and I am settled once again I would like to try some of the moulds out there that produce bullets heavier than the 440s. Mountain Moulds makes some of apparently high quality, with weights as much as 620 grains. Before I order those though, I think I will check out what BTB has in the way of cast bullets and try some more shapes and sizes to help me decide on what I want for a mould.
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