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Post by squawberryman on Jan 30, 2020 15:12:56 GMT -5
Maybe ten years ago I was given a friends' fathers' old supply of bullets, about five or six boxes which had no meaning to me other than being old and cool, to go alongside old 22 boxes and full boxes of paper hull shotgun shells. As it seems each day I learn something on this site(entertainment each day for sure!)I read the thread about half jacket bullets and that made me go look today. The gun room is a wreck and will be until after we move but I thought what were those ones? I found 'em. Beautiful old box, seventy seven beautiful bullets. Thanks for the thread fellas. 
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Post by ddixie884 on Jan 30, 2020 20:09:00 GMT -5
There was a time when someone would have loaded those in a .38spl case with a standard spp 6.0gr of old smokey Unique and a firm roll crimp over the front edge of that half jacket and be ready for business............
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Post by kings6 on Jan 30, 2020 20:41:50 GMT -5
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Post by dhd on Jan 30, 2020 23:01:25 GMT -5
That is a really old box of Partitions there. Weren't the jackets originally made on a lathe? Seem to remember reading that they were, and that looks to be a box full.
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Post by bigbrowndog on Jan 30, 2020 23:16:42 GMT -5
I’m shooting some old 6.5mm turned partitions now from my Grendel, they are some pig killing bullets!!!!
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Post by kings6 on Jan 30, 2020 23:43:39 GMT -5
I believe so and notice that the address is Ashland OR, where they started before moving to Bend.
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Post by squawberryman on Jan 31, 2020 5:35:09 GMT -5
Anyone got a fitting load from experience with these?
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Post by bula on Jan 31, 2020 8:59:15 GMT -5
I have a 5th printing, Speer #10 Manual (1984). Want data ? Give me specifics..mag or spec, etc..
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Post by ezekiel38 on Jan 31, 2020 11:30:52 GMT -5
Dave Andrews the original ballistician at Speer always remarked that the 146 Half Jacket was kept in the inventory for years because reloaders screamed everytime it was dropped from the inventory. Because it was so accurate. I've shot boxes and boxes of these in 357 with superb accuracy. Unique and 2400 is a good place to start. They like to go fast.
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Post by bula on Jan 31, 2020 12:17:01 GMT -5
My ole Bulldog lots of the 225gr HP, sigh, we miss it.
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Post by jgt on Feb 1, 2020 9:21:24 GMT -5
I have a 1/2 jacket swaging die to make 44 bullets. Just never had any half jackets. Seeing this post inspires me to try making some jackets to try in that die.
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Post by Frank V on Feb 1, 2020 22:43:20 GMT -5
Maybe ten years ago I was given a friends' fathers' old supply of bullets, about five or six boxes which had no meaning to me other than being old and cool, to go alongside old 22 boxes and full boxes of paper hull shotgun shells. As it seems each day I learn something on this site(entertainment each day for sure!)I read the thread about half jacket bullets and that made me go look today. The gun room is a wreck and will be until after we move but I thought what were those ones? I found 'em. Beautiful old box, seventy seven beautiful bullets. Thanks for the thread fellas.
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Post by dougader on Feb 5, 2020 12:08:13 GMT -5
I have a 5th printing, Speer #10 Manual (1984). Want data ? Give me specifics..mag or spec, etc..  . |
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Post by bula on Feb 5, 2020 12:10:11 GMT -5
In the Speer #10..this manual has for .357 both rifle and handgun data. To be clear, in the rifle section, NO data for these half jacketed bullets. Maybe John Taffin or Bradshaw will know why and keep me from guessing !
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Post by bula on Feb 5, 2020 12:11:26 GMT -5
Thank you Doug, you are a gentleman and a scholar, unless you find those terms insulting.
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