Hi
what about fmj steel jacket bullets like woodleigh? are they wearing fast the barrel? I 've heard horror stories that a good safari grade rifle had lost precision just after only a couple of hundred rounds steel jackts, true or false? please give me your opinion.
regards
Yazid

don't let the term steel jacket fool you. the jackets on solids are gilding metal not steel and are not any harder on a barrel than is any other bullet

Woodleigh Solids are made of "copper" steel and lead. You will have to cintact woodleigh to get the exact thickness of the copper/gliding metal jacket. A magnet will stick to the Solids.
The steel does not appear to be exposed when shot through my 450 No2. But in my 450/400 3 1/4" the one recovered solid showed steel in the "land" area engraved on the bullet.

butchloc,

You do understand that Woodleigh solids have a steel jacket that is merely guilding metal plated, right?

JPK

As well as the old original Hornady FMJs.

The BEST traditional cup and core solids have steel jackets and the REALLY BEST are bonded to their lead cores.

They are coated with gilding metal to a significant thickness so as to avoid undue barrel wear.

Of course, monometal solids are a brass alloy that is plenty hard enough and will more than do the trick.

After seeing my Woodleigh crack at the base--it killed, but it did crack--I am waiting for the Barnes FN solid in my fifty caliber of choice to come out. That will be the best.

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Originally posted by yes:
Hi
what about fmj steel jacket bullets like woodleigh? are they wearing fast the barrel? I 've heard horror stories that a good safari grade rifle had lost precision just after only a couple of hundred rounds steel jackts, true or false? please give me your opinion.
regards
Yazid

The Woodleigh solids are definitely hard on barrels and produce higher pressures than a traditional soft nose. They are not as hard on barrels as traditional monolithic solids like the RN Barnes solid, but they are harder on barrels than a driving band solid (GS Custom, North Fork and Bridger). However, as noted above the steel of the Woodleigh does not actually contact the rifling. But the steel does resist obturation which makes it harder to push a steel lined solid through a barrel than some of the other bullets mentioned in this post.

That's a question I've wondered about also. I have 2 sets of bulk 375 fmj's. The older ones were sold by Lock Stock and Barrel as Winchester fmj's and a magnet will stick to them. The other bunch were given to me by Rusty and were sold as Hornday's and are non-magnetic. I assume that the non-magnetic lot are softer and a better choice as plinkers as far as minimizing barrel wear. What do you guys think? Bob