Recently purchased Speer Lawman 185 gr. for my .45 GAP, has tiny yellow spheres in the residue after firing. No harm done.....just curious if they're identification taggants for powders...something discussed many years ago.

Iam guessing that they are partly burnt grains of powder.

No law was ever passed it was talked about but not pass I dought a ammo maker would go to the expense unless forced on to them.

The ammo market is to tight to be increasing ones costs unless one really has too.

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Originally posted by p dog shooter:
Iam guessing that they are partly burnt grains of powder.

Very common occurrence.

That's interesting....been reloading for 35 years and haven't seen anything like it. Curious as to the type of powder Speer uses....

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Originally posted by spoonbender:
That's interesting....been reloading for 35 years and haven't seen anything like it. Curious as to the type of powder Speer uses....

Seen it with 2400, 296, occasionally H110, to name a few.

See it more often in factory loads though.