full forming Barnes bullets

[LBAhunter]

Any of you guys that full form Barnes bullets, do you find that they hold their sizing once you size them?

 

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Any of you guys that full form Barnes bullets, do you find that they hold their sizing once you size them?

Buckdoehunter should know about that .

 

[BuckDoeHunter]

No spring back with the one’s I’ve used. Barnes 250gr TEZ and Bear Creek Ballistics 285gr BallPoint have gone the longest between sizing and loading, over a year, no change in loading force that I can recall.

Most of the copper bullets I shoot are .451-452, knurled, then full formed for a .458 barrel. I’ve shot a couple different .458 coppers that were annealed, then full formed, but all those were loaded and shot within a few days so I don’t know if they may spring back, I’m thinking very little, if any.

 

[Sideshow]

No spring back with the one’s I’ve used. Barnes 250gr TEZ and Bear Creek Ballistics 285gr BallPoint have gone the longest between sizing and loading, over a year, no change in loading force that I can recall.

Most of the copper bullets I shoot are .451-452, knurled, then full formed for a .458 barrel. I’ve shot a couple different .458 coppers that were annealed, then full formed, but all those were loaded and shot within a few days so I don’t know if they may spring back, I’m thinking very little, if any.

I knew you knew.......thanks

 

[LBAhunter]

I knew you knew.......thanks

Yep