This was the third time at the range with my Colt 9mm Carbine today. I have been running Power Pistol behind the Bayou Bullet 124gr round nose, and while things generally go bang and end up where I have pointed, the obnoxious cloud of death smog is just too absurd to justify loading these any more.
I am no stranger to the awful cloud of fouling, having made many 230gr Lead round nose rounds propelled by Bulleseye. Lead is notorious for fouling, and bullseye is notably filthy, to say nothing of being fired out a 4" barrel. However, the marked differences would (or rather, should) be the vastly cleaner Power Pistol powder with the moly coating on the Bayou Bullets travelling down a barrel 4 times the length of a handgun for maximum powder cookoff.
Nothing doing here. Solid taper crimp, regular AND magnum primers all yield the same choking cloud that invades the sinuses and fills the throat with black post-nasal drip, largely indistinguishable from Bulleseye-propelled non-coated lead. This is also accompanied by a ton of fouling all over the shirt where the buttstock made contact, a black, sooty face, and lead shavings splintering out of the slots in the A2 birdcage like a crown of thorns.
I have had limited contact with the proprietor -seems like a good guy, and lots of people like the product. Maybe these serve a better purpose in another role, but for my purposes, I'm going to pass. Looks like copper plated at a minimum from now on.
I am no stranger to the awful cloud of fouling, having made many 230gr Lead round nose rounds propelled by Bulleseye. Lead is notorious for fouling, and bullseye is notably filthy, to say nothing of being fired out a 4" barrel. However, the marked differences would (or rather, should) be the vastly cleaner Power Pistol powder with the moly coating on the Bayou Bullets travelling down a barrel 4 times the length of a handgun for maximum powder cookoff.
Nothing doing here. Solid taper crimp, regular AND magnum primers all yield the same choking cloud that invades the sinuses and fills the throat with black post-nasal drip, largely indistinguishable from Bulleseye-propelled non-coated lead. This is also accompanied by a ton of fouling all over the shirt where the buttstock made contact, a black, sooty face, and lead shavings splintering out of the slots in the A2 birdcage like a crown of thorns.
I have had limited contact with the proprietor -seems like a good guy, and lots of people like the product. Maybe these serve a better purpose in another role, but for my purposes, I'm going to pass. Looks like copper plated at a minimum from now on.
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