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Here's his new web address.Been meaning to try a sample pack from this guy - can't beat his sample price of $10/100 and you can mix in 25 round packs
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met him at arpc show a couple years ago. very nice guyCall Travis at T&B
Nice.. thanks!I'd never heard of TB till this thread so I ordered 100 of his 0.358" 158gr SWC on Thursday afternoon, he shipped Friday and they just arrived in the Saturday mail. The city frowns on backyard ballistics testing so I haven't had a chance to test for accuracy and leading yet, but I did a comparison to my supply of Laser-Cast 158gr SWC by randomly inspecting 10 of each manufacturer.
Laser-Cast:
157.1gr - 157.6gr
0.3575" - 0.358"
TB:
157.3gr - 159.3gr
0.3565" - 0.358"
The Laser-Cast were the same diameter no matter how I rotated the bullet, but if I rotated the TB bullets they would measure as much as 0.001" difference in diameter which means they were not all a perfect circle.
What I actually noticed first was that the shoulder of many of the TB SWC were rounded instead of sharp on one side, as if the mold did not completely fill. I did not see any such imperfections on the Laser-Cast bullets. This is very subjective, but I scratched the bases of each with a pick and while the Laser-Cast was harder, it wasn't by a whole lot. And lastly, I counted twice just to be sure, but my bag of 100 had 91 bullets. It is most likely that he accidentally used the weight of 148gr bullets when packaging. Now I've never counted a Laser-Cast box of 500, but I doubt they are 9% light.
The Laser-Cast are $67.75 per 500 while the TB are $40.50, but even if 9% light you're still only at $44.50. I plan to get out and do some shooting in the next week or so and will report back if the TB bullets are as accurate as the Laser-Cast despite their inconsistencies.
Yes. They cut a full-caliber hole.. especially if they are sharp shouldered. Paper, meat, you know.SWC?
TC
That sounds pretty low but probably OK?I use H-110 behind the 170 T&B SWC's with no problems just keep the velocity down around 1150 fps. One thing is it's a long bullet so I have to crimp to the top of the crimp groove so it doesn't stick out of one of my revolver cylinders.