.45 acp Boolits

[mr surveyor]

woohoo.... bullet order came in today. A 500 ct box of 230 gr lrn bullets from Bayou Bullets. These are coated with a dry lube coating...completely coated and non sticky. The prettiest dark green, and the lube groove is gold colored. These look like something a kid painted (real good) with his Testors Model paints. Donnie Miculek (Jerry Miculek's brother) is the owner and caster of/for Bayou Bullets in far/far South Louisana, and is definately experienced in his work. Can't wait to load up a batch and give 'em a try.

surv

[Bawanna]

Good for you sir. There's actually two L's in boollits.

I miss the days when we could shoot lead around here. Have a couple thousand 45 Colt boollits that I have to shoot outside whenever I get a chance. Most of the indoor ranges (gets pretty damp outside round these parts this time of year) don't allow them any more.

Are them Bayou boollits pretty hard? I like a hard cast boollit myself.

[mr surveyor]

I didn't ask about the bhn when I ordered them, and it's not stated on the website either. I just know that all the reviews I've read (dating back to 2009) have been excellent. I just hope I can come up with a few extra bucks to order some for .357 and .44 (and maybe another 1k or so in .45) before everyone overloads him with orders. Sounds like no one has experienced leading, when loaded at lead bullet spec's I suppose. I understand the lube is affectionately known as "Gator Snot", but since it is a product of an Aussie company I would tnink it would be "Croc Snot". The inside of the box, as well as the paper stuffing, was as clean as new, with absolutely no residue or discoloring. You can actually stick your index finger into the box of bullets all the way to the bottom of the box with very little resistance. These things are slick.

[Bawanna]

Sweet.

[mr surveyor]

Well, since I already had 250 pieces of brass prepped, and the pretty green projectiles, I loaded up five at noon today to test n the back yard....sweeet

[Bawanna]

Five? Only five?

[mr surveyor]

I'll be loading up a box or three tonight. The 5 were "test loads"....in the back yard .... didn't want to piss off the neighbors. Besides, I lost 4 out of the 5 pieces of brass in the leaves

[Bawanna]

But, but, but your in Texas, how close can the neighbors be?

I know about pissed off neighbors, mine never complain but I don't like to shoot much out the back yard or they will complain and then things would just turn ugly and they don't need anymore of that, they are plenty ugly as is.

[mr surveyor]

[Charlie98]

So that greenish color is the lube???

[dkmatthews]

Cool! OD green boollits!

[mr surveyor]

I believe these bullets are the "M&M's" of the bullet world.... the green dry lube melts in your barrel, not in your hand.

[Bawanna]

They are kind of pretty. Wonder if it's bat dung to cause infection in addition to the wound channel.

Sort of like the poison darts the pres used growing up in his home land.

[OldLincoln]

1. Are the lead bullets cheaper than plated or FMJ?

2. Poison tips.... In 1965 I was at Clark AFB in the Philippines living in a Section 8 Ward (for crazy folks). We got the last of the structured housing and they took the cell doors off but that's about all. About 25yds away was the perimeter dirt road followed by head tall grass. I about freaked out the next morning when I stepped out to find a half dozen natives (real natives) carrying blow guns and bows and arrows. They didn't pay much attention to us once we all got it that we were not to be their dinner. They didn't speak English but were good at communicating anyway.

Found out they were the Negrito Tribe of native Indians and were contracted to protect the base from the Huks (Hukbalahap Movement - rebel terrorists) and the Negrito Indians themselves. The story was that one time the contract was dropped and all kinds of stuff happened. So they hired them back and all was well.

Anyway, guys being guys, we made friends with them and they let us play with their weapons, but warning us over and over NOT to touch the tips as we would die. A couple of the guys traded cigarets for blow guns and darts minus the poison and had contests shooting into an old door.

PS: I'll save the story of the giant hair eating rat for another time.

[mr surveyor]

I paid $68 for 500 delivered