Blemished bullets

MOfrog

MOfrog

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I was looking for input into the use of blemished bullets. I've used them before and always thought of them as a more economical way to reload.
1- Do you use them and for what percentage of your reloading. Rifle and/or Pistol?
2- Would you use them more if you had easy access to them?
3- Any bad experiences with them?

Thanks a lot.
 
I and several of my friends have been buying the Nosler 2nds for years. They are blems, but it effects accuracy not at all. I have a couple thousand of them waiting to be loaded as I used to buy them every time that they went on sale. Killed lots of squirrels and prairie dogs with them. Matter of fact on my last prairie dog hunt a couple of months ago all of my ammo except for my .17 Remington was loaded with Nosler 2nds.
 
Originally Posted By: RustydustI and several of my friends have been buying the Nosler 2nds for years. They are blems, but it effects accuracy not at all. I have a couple thousand of them waiting to be loaded as I used to buy them every time that they went on sale. Killed lots of squirrels and prairie dogs with them. Matter of fact on my last prairie dog hunt a couple of months ago all of my ammo except for my .17 Remington was loaded with Nosler 2nds.

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I couldn't tell any difference between the Nosler Partition blems and "good" ones, even in the way they grouped.

Most of them looked like they got scrapped because they had a little ding in the lead nose, and that's not normally going to be a factor.

I bought a bunch and will use them until I run out (which will be a LONG time).
 
Originally Posted By: MOfrogI was looking for input into the use of blemished bullets. I've used them before and always thought of them as a more economical way to reload.
1- Do you use them and for what percentage of your reloading. Rifle and/or Pistol?
2- Would you use them more if you had easy access to them?
3- Any bad experiences with them?

Thanks a lot.

1. yes and more than half of both are blems.
2. yes
3. yes, I always run out and can't get my hands on enough of them.

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1. In rifles I use them. Pistols I pretty much only shoot lead cast. I would say that at the moment they are over half of what I load for rifles.
2. If I had access it is all I would shoot.
3. Yes. I ordered blems through midsouth and did not read close enough. From the picture they were clearly 60gr V-max, and they were but if I had read I would of seen that they were undersized and actually 5.45 bullets, not 5.56. They also varied a good bit in length. That being said they were only like $4/100 so I didn't loose a lot of money and they shot about 1.5" at a hundred out of a buddies stevens 223 rem before he sold it. I would use them for jack rabbits, but I have other blems I am running in my 6x45 that are to good not to and I don't have a 5.56 AR.
 
Originally Posted By: 3DHUSKER

1. yes and more than half of both are blems.
2. yes
3. yes, I always run out and can't get my hands on enough of them.

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When Sierra was still in Sante Fe Springs, California I worked about a block away. They ran bullets by caliber and occasionally would sell blemished bullets by the pound. Since I wasn't making much money at that time I bought all of my bullets that way. There was no discernible drop in accuracy and I and my hunting buddies killed hundreds of coyotes and lots of bobcats with them.

The 52 grain match bullets looked exactly the same as new out of the box and the weight was exactly 52 grains. The Spitzers had a small amount of lead overflow right where the copper meets the lead but it was easily removed with your thumbnail. Once the extra lead was removed the bullet weight was correct. Occasionally you'd get a badly deformed bullet but these were rare. Sierra only sold them out the door at the factory and you had to ask for them.
 
I've used both Nosler blemished partitions and Sierra, now in Sedalia MO, blemished bullets in many sizes. I could not tell that they shot any different. If you take the free tour at Sierra, you'll see that they have pretty strict QC to make the 1sts and the seconds are still darn good. The only problem I've had was that a high percentage of the plastic tips in the 55gr .243 Blitzking bullets that I bought were either gone or installed backward. I threw out the ones that were backward and shot the ones missing the tip. still worked fine but did not shoot them long range. Even though I threw so many away, there were still more than 2 lbs of good bullets and I only asked for one lb to begin with. They weigh heavy and always give plenty of extras, especially when they know you will have to sort them. It is a VERY economical way to shoot, with very little downside IMO.
 


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