Several months ago I received a shipment of three boxes of the 110 grain blacktips from Barnes. I just noticed that every single bullet's blacktip isn't seated all the way down on the brass tip of the bullet. There is a slight air space between the to. Here is a picture:
Is this okay/ normal? Or is it something to worry about? I suppose it's possible that the blacktip may be seated fully durring the seating stage of the reloading process.
I'm just wondering if I should try to work up a hunting load with these, or send them back to Barnes for an exchange?
Also, I'm loading these for my 11 year old sons AR for deer. Anybody got good loading data of this round in a 16" AR barrel (wilson combat tactical light weight SS barrel)?
No matter what you read on the intarweb CCI450s and CCI41s ARE NOT BALLISTICALLY IDENTICAL with H110! I'm also not a intarweb lawyer so I don't argue with anyone who is.
ScottB70 wrote:Barnes says that it's normal and doesn't affect performance.
No, this is not "normal"; but a few lots lately seem to be like this. I managed to seat mine but a few still have some light pass through, less than the thickness of a piece of paper. The shoot just fine this way, but should not need the extra step to get them loaded. The worst ones would effect COAL, so would return or seat them before loading.
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ScottB70 wrote:Barnes says that it's normal and doesn't affect performance.
No, this is not "normal"; but a few lots lately seem to be like this. I managed to seat mine but a few still have some light pass through, less than the thickness of a piece of paper. The shoot just fine this way, but should not need the extra step to get them loaded. The worst ones would effect COAL, so would return or seat them before loading.
Sorry for the late response. Can you tell me how you managed to seat the black tips the rest of the way? Or mostly the rest of the way? I thought maybe they would have seated themselves during the pressure of seating the bullet. But that assumes the black tips come in contact up inside the seating die.
I have some like this also. These are the ones that I pick for hunting. I feel that with the poly tip having to be pushed back slightly by the impact,AND more void under the shaft of the tip,these bullets will actually expand faster.
Just a thought. --- pruhdlr
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I bought a box of these today for whitetail. Didn't know of this problem. But after reading this, I went and checked all the rounds in my box. And they were all fine. Thanks for the heads-up!
