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50 bmg LEAD core bullets

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29 May 2004, 15:21
jeffeosso
50 bmg LEAD core bullets
anyone know which milsurp 50mbg bullets are LEAD only core... no steel or tungsten please...

weight and designation, please

jeffe
29 May 2004, 16:07
tiggertate
None that I am aware of. The lead cores slipped inside the jackets to the extent that accuracy was destroyed so steel was adopted early-on. Lead was used as a base plug only. I remember playing in the old abandoned aerial gunnery range at Bergstrom AFB in the early sixties and finding thousands of steel cores in the sand...not a single lead one.