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Valorie Welker
I'm looking for a cheap plated bullet and xtreme bullets scratch that itch at around 9cpr. They seem to have mixed reviews on an old school website, so I'm wondering if anyone here has anything to say about them? Not sure if I want to go with 124 or 147 but I'm looking at ordering 1500 projectiles this coming payday.
i have shot a ton of them and do not have any bad news. I switched over to Everglades plated bullets about 3 years ago because of the quality and the 2nd day free shipping. The version (1 )147 flat nose gives me match grade accuracy and i have won many matches with them since the switch. Either are good products, Everglades gives a choice of plating thickness and diameter along with constant sales and free shipping.
You will just have to buy them and compare. You have to make sure not to over crimp plated bullets to get the utmost performance out of them. Jacketed bullets such as PD are not as fussy about crimp but they are more expensive. I constantly get groups with the EG bullets out of my Glocks under 1.5'' at 25 yards so i have no problem using them in matches. YMMV.
I have a different take than ifly. Good plated bullets are really quite accurate. In many cases more accurate than hard cast coated. It all comes down to the quality and consistency of the bullet. When they were still making them, Rainier was the best, followed by RMR and Berry's. RMR did not make the plated bullets they sold. They no longer offer them because the manufacturer cannot keep up with demand for their own sales. I've only shot 1k of the Everglades plated, so I don't have a definite opinion yet. So far I like them. I don't like Frontier plated.
Plated and heavy plate are a must if you are going to shoot them through a ported or compensated gun. They are also better on steel, because they are softer and shatter into many small fragments. Hard cast bullets shatter in much larger pieces, and those chunks carry a lot further. Do not shoot lead or coated bullets out of a comp, unless you really enjoy removing lead and smurf poo from it. Same thing with jacketed, except for the smurf poo.
As far as coated lead goes, they almost all suck. I like Precision Bullets the best, by a long shot. Accurate and the coating doesn't stink when fired. Another good one, surprisingly, is Summers Industries. Accurate and very inexpensive. Hi-Tek coating stinks when fired. I'll not list the approximately dozen other brands I've tried and discarded. However, I will mention the worst. J-Ames coated bullets are bafflingly bad, and they smoke horribly. Most of the bullets I've tried in my PCC vary from one hole to 2" groups at 25 yards. With the J-Ames, I was lucky to keep them all on a 12"x12" target. I bought 1k because I was assured they would not lead up a comp. I though so little of them the remaining 750+ were placed on the free table at my club.
You know that when .40S&W came out, there were warnings from all the companies NOT to load 200gn bullets in .40 S&W. Going to 220gn can only make the need for very precise loading even more critical. You have a marginal case that you are loading a heavier than recommended bullet into.
Your results will vary but with a 200 xtreme and n320 I was able to make aa very soft minor load but the velocities were all over the place. 180s around 800fps were the best mix of accuracy, soft, and good sd for me.
I was given some Xtreme 158gr plated bullets and want to use them for .357 magnum. I'm just wondering if any of you out there are using Xtreme for .357 mag and if so how fast you've been able to get them before suffering plating separation. I know of the plated bullet makers Xtreme is supposedly using the thickest plating.
I would be careful shooting them out of a .357 because of the amount of crimp required. You need a given ammount to keep the bullets from setting back but with a slick copper plating you risk cutting through the plating. If you are going to be doing much shooting with a .357 I would go with true jacketed bullets. I have shot several tens of thousands of plated bullets out of autos and even with a tapered crimp I have seen a few get the plating cut through, on a roll crimp such as that needed in .357 you are pretty much going to have plating seperation.
I push my 10mm 155gr Xtremes to 1400+, and my dad pushes his .357 loads to 1500+ in his .357Mag. Extremes are probably the best built plated bullet on the market. I have handfuls of 10mm bullets that I've recovered that look new except for the rifling. I've shot them through 6 sheets of 3/4" mdf and they had very minimal deformation.
Freakshow, thanks for the offer. Sadly thanks to a fussy DSL line (been storming in the area here) I didn't get your message in time. Right now 100 or so would be enough to do some testing, just let me know how much you would want and as soon as I get back into town I will get some funds out your way. Although I don't leave for a few weeks by the time my funds got to you and you shipped the bullets out I would be out of the country. lol Two weeks in Europe is eating a lot of my funds otherwise I would gladly buy a case and give them a try.
I use Xtreme bullets exclusively in my Desert Eagle 44. They don't like fast burning powders in my D.E. They broke up when fired with IMR 4756 powder. And it was an average load. With W296, IMR 4227, 2400, they work great. Accuracy is good. IMR 4756 powder is actually too fast a powder for 44 magnum. In 357/9mm it should be okay. The D.E. doesn't like 'target' loads either. It needs the med/max load to power the slide function.
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