just got my 1000 230 gr JHP .45 blems last night - they look perfect!

Fast shipping too - this was seriously a GREAT deal!

I just got my 500 .458 350gr bullets too. They look good, but I dont' think they're Hornady bullets. The ogive is too straight where the Hornady bullet is like a round nose with the tip lopped off.

As long as they shoot straight it's of little matter, 99% will go into targets and the other 1% will be deer/bear/boar bullets and should suffice.

Rick

Do they have a webbsite?

Got my 60gr .224 HPs. Loaded them up in my .22-250 w/1-12 twist, using 35, 35.5, 36, and 36.5gr H-380. Groups were excellent with the 36gr load. Grandsons shot everything up so now have to reload for next week's pd hunt.

I'm still working my way through 1000 40-gr V-Max blems I got from them last summer. Shoot great out of my .223, and at $75/1000 they're an amazing deal. I still can't figure out why they were classified as blems.

Grrrr. They're out of the 375's already. Bob

My 375/300's look to be Hornady RN FMJ ENC's. The only blemishes I detect are tiny scratches around the nose. The jackets are very yellow, not copper colored like most bullet jackets (including the Hornady softpoints I've been shooting).

I was curious whether the yellow color was a coating to quickly distinguish solids and softpoints in the field, so I sectioned one. Nope, that brass color goes all the way down to the lead core.

These jackets are thick, and maybe harder than the copper-colored ones (I haven't measured the BHN yet). I cut the softpoints in half with a cheap kitchen knife. These FMJ's required a hacksaw.

It will be interesting to recover some after they hit hard targets. I figure beef leg bones in front of sandbags are a reasonable test medium.

H. C.

I ordered 2000 of the 60 grain HP's in .224 and they appear to be Hornady bullets with a cannelure added and the HP opening swaged to a smaller diameter. I liked this as I plan to use the bullet for whitetails in my .223 and I have noticed that cannelures seem to cause a bullet to hold together better and the smaller opening up front might slow expansion just a bit.

I got my order on Friday. I ordered some of the 140 gr Plastic Tip 7mm's wondering if there would be any difference between these and the standard 139 gr Hornadys. Well, there was. The 140's have a gold-color plastic tip. Makes for a very handsome bullet. Weighing 12 of the bullets, they went from 139.1 to 139.7.

I got some blems from them last July.
LS&B are my favorite supplier.
They do everything right.

Thanks for the heads up! I've shot these before, and I can't tell the difference between these and the first run stuff.

Has any one checked physical dimensions? Are they still round? Maybe some one could role them on a flat surface to check the consistency?

I would like to know...

Thanks..

I haven't measured them or anything but I've checked out several (JHP) and they appear to be as good as anything I've bought that weren't blems!

I did notice on 1 bullet that the surface was slightly nicked - but not in a way that would mess up feeding or anything like that.

They look really good and for the price I think they look even better.

It looks as if Mid South has some Hornady OEM 375 caliber 300 grain FMJ RN-ENC bullets ($33/100). Not quite as cheap as the blems at LS&B; a little more than half the usual price of these bullets ($29/50).

H. C.

http://www.midsouthshooterssupply.com/search.asp?search=375cal++*&type=All&mfg=00285&dept=THE+CLOSEOUT+ROOM&submit=Find+it%21

Got my 35 caliber 180 grain SSPs and they look perfect...and what a price!!!

I just shot my first reloads with the 230 gr .45 JHP blems - accuracy was not at all affected with these loads.

I am now SUPER happy about my blems purchase.