July 20, 2018, 10:51 PM | #26 | |
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Also, differences in powder lot # and primer can produce differences in velocity. Different barrels produce different velocities with the same ammo. Differences in case capacity can produce different velocities. It's a long list. Experienced reloaders should never expect to produce the same velocity as published data for all those reasons and more. To reiterate, the hollow base has nothing to do with it. You're barking up the wrong tree. |
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July 20, 2018, 10:59 PM | #27 | |
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Some readers might find the article below of interest. It describes 9 Major in a 4.6" barreled Glock. If you look at the load data, charges can be surprisingly high with some powders compared to what is published by powder and bullet makers. 9 Major is not for the faint of heart. https://www.ssusa.org/articles/2018/...-short-barrel/ |
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74A95 thank for the link, I will read it latter when I'm not as tired and can actually digest it. As I go along and progress in this hobby/endeavor I find this kind of thing fascinating!
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So they took a bit of the mass out of the center core and distributed it around the base in order to get a longer body. The reason was accuracy, not expansion. https://www.berrysmfg.com/item/bp-45-452-185gr-hbrn Quote:
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I have used both hollow base and flat base of the sane weight in my 380. Can not tell the difference with the crony or target.
I doubt the base swells because it's so thick compared to a 38 cal HBWC. I believe it's for a longer bullet (more bearing surface) David |
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I looked around and didn't see any HB Berry's bullets in my basement. Mine are all 45 anyway. The one clear picture on their site of a hollow base profile is for their 45 185 grain HBRN design. It appears to have the form of a truncated cone. Assuming the narrower base cavities do as well, calculating the volume is trivial, and you can calculate how much shorter the bullet would be by dividing that volume by pi and then dividing again by the square of half the full bullet diameter. This value is how much shorter a flat base version would be seated to produce the same powder space under the bullet.
Seating Depth = Case Length + Bullet Length - COL COL = Case Length + Bullet Length - Seating Depth
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Well I use the Hollow Base in 9mm and 380 and I am not going to fret about any of this. There is enough published information between Hodgdon and Western that I can safely figure out what I need to do as far as loading these. Yes the bearing surface is longer but not by much. At the velocities I load to these Hollow Base bullets perform just as I believe they were meant to.
Also from my experience and using Western powders I agree with their published data that with certain powders there is a significant difference between the hollow base and the solid base bullets of the same weight. |
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Since I load both, I've adopted a multi-pronged approach to keeping them separated. First, of course, each box gets labeled. Second, I use different types of box for each. Lastly, I had long ago settled on using only Winchester brass for the 230s, so for the 185s I use ... anything except Winchester. So far it's been working. |
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I decided that, for my own enlightenment and edification if nothing else, I wanted to better quantify what's going on with these bullets. So I went down to the dungeon of doom, pulled out five each of the Berry's 185-grain and 230-grain bullets, and took some measurements. For both, the [bullet] overall length was remarkably consistent. For the 185s, they ALL measured .587". For the 230s, four measured .640" and one measured .639", so the average is .640".
Following a methodology used by the statistic maven over at M1911.org, I then used a fat Sharpie to blacken the side of each bullet, used a straight utility knife blade to scrape the black off the bullet bases, and measured that. There was quite a bit of variance, certainly due to the fact that there's no hard stop, so I was just using the MK 1 Mod 3A hairy eyeball to align the depth plunger on my caliper with the top of each scratch mark. I came up with an average base length of .236" for the 185-grain hollow-base bullets, and .240" for the 230-grain bullets. That leaves the "nose" of each at .351" and .400", respectively. |
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