Zinky-dink bullets (zinc bullets, WHAT?)

Elric

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10mm .400 Diameter 155 Grain Lead Free Zinc Solid Bullet 100 Count

https://www.midsouthshooterssupply....5-grain-lead-free-zinc-solid-bullet-100-count

OK... Now what is THIS o_O? I think the only "redeeming" part is the lead free... Yes they are lighter. Probably will tolerate much higher velocities... But will not bump up. Remember the Harvey Prot-X-Bore and "sheradizing"

http://hawkbullets.com/prot-x-bore.html

Quote from Midsouth:
**These are best for experienced reloaders due to lack of loading information available at this time. We will have minimal loading data posted soon.**

These 10mm bullets are a great bargain for reloaders looking for quality solid zinc, lead free bullets. We've found a bulk lot of bullets intended to go into factory ammunition, and now we're offering them to you at extreme value. These solid zinc, lead free bullets are a percentage of the cost of regular bullets. Quantities are limited and when they're gone - they are gone!
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KHornet

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I remember as a kid, a guy who cast some pure zinc pistol
bullets. I recall that he only did a few to test, and was not
real happy with them.

Paul
 

Intheshop

Banned
Zinc to me is like that funky mastitus "stuff" that forms in oldish nitro laquer paint we use for cresting arrows.It just fowls the whole process?

And yes,we reseal paint cans with argon....and yes,nitro laquer is from a bygone era.But guitar folks still use it along with some other special purposes.

Funked up NL paint gets relegated to shooting the "snot" (spider web) on stocks and bows.Shot some snot yesterday.Bought a pint of black NL at a bow shoot....it was old.Use a 2.4 mm tip in your spray gun....same tip that you shoot polyester body fillers with....can you say hi-build?
 
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fiver

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there is a good write up on zinc bullets in GUNS magazine circa 1958-1959.
a couple of the writers used them to hunt with.
they were called jugular or the name of the company was jugular I should say.

as far as zinc coating your barrel it does and it does it the same way ZDDP used to coat the internals of your engine.
it was removed from engine oils when they found it also coated the catalytic converters contents.
but what it does is put a coating on the steel parts similar to an alligators skin, the little crevices hold more lubricant in them.
 

Chris

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there is a good write up on zinc bullets in GUNS magazine circa 1958-1959.
a couple of the writers used them to hunt with.
they were called jugular or the name of the company was jugular I should say.

I read this and somehow remembered they were called "Harvey Jugular". Dunno how, my memory is terrible and my mind is like one of those steel things. Smart as a horse and hung like Einstein, I always say.

Anyway, a quick google turned up the following. Fun read:

http://gunsmagazine.com/1956issues/G0556.pdf
 

Elric

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I read this and somehow remembered they were called "Harvey Jugular". http://gunsmagazine.com/1956issues/G0556.pdf

Read it, those were the half-jacket "Juglars", nothing to do with zinc.

The Prot-X-Bores used a zinc washer on the base. I dimly remember zinc bullets. Surf's up!

"Most Deadly Bullet" by Kent Bellah, Guns Magazine, May 1956, pages 19-21, 45
"Lead core and brass cup are swaged together to make Jugular"

http://levergunscommunity.org/viewtopic.php?p=65018&sid=39968b61b7cc92f05ecc5cfe92238ac9#p65018

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?14176-cast-zinc-bullets

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/sho...t-zinc-bullets&p=160267&viewfull=1#post160267
 
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fiver

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Harvey I think was the pro-tex bore with the zinc washers.

I did like how that magazine was hawking the greatness of the short jacketed bullets and then Hollywood had an advertisement right there for their presses and their swage dies.
 

RBHarter

West Central AR
There used to be several threads with testing and alloy adjustment in addition to the ZAMAC alloy . I recall someone having added 2-3% lead and 5% tin to the zinc to beat the piping and fill out problems .

I have a couple of moulds now that would shine but the fouling looks rough now ..........
 

Edward R Southgate

Component Hoarder Extraordiniare
9AD10B296E1C4875A5B8214034ECA3B758 Williams Cleaner.jpg WillimsCleanerNonstandard.jpg fiver ,
Is my memory failing me or did not Lyman sell the molds and washers to make the Harvey Pro Tex bullets ? The zinc washer idea goes all the way back to the Civil War in the form of the Williams Cleaner bullet . 9AD10B296E1C4875A5B8214034ECA3B758 Williams Cleaner.jpg WillimsCleanerNonstandard.jpg
 

fiver

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they did sell them.
I have one in 38 caliber and the washers to go with it.
they also made them in 44 cal.

you heat the washers on the edge of the pot then slide them in a slot at the base of the mold, close the mold and sprue plate, then cast through the hole in the washer.
this left a little nub of lead behind the washer to lock it in place.
[some guy's would squish that nub flat in a swage die]
the mold is flat sided with no provisions for lube.

they were known as the Harvey pro-tex-bore molds [after Harvey Donaldson AIRC]
I always thought they should have incorporated the pointy penetrator nose and advocated them as that type of bullet.