Anyone used any Aluminum Bullets?

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Jody Hudson

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I am not a reloader but I would love to have some data on loading and shooting aluminum bullets if any of you have any experience or knowledge in the area.

Is there some reason why they are not made with the possible exception of Winchester Silver Tips. In fact are Silver Tips even aluminum?

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Aluminum makes a poor jacket material since it is not soft enough to fill the grooves adequately, and also it leaves heavy fouling. As for an all-aluminum bullet or one with a copper jacket and aluminum core, such a bullet would be so light as to be almost useless. Energy would drop rapidly and penetration would suffer.

For reloaders, aluminum can't be melted or cast properly with home equipment.

Aluminum jackets and bullets have not been overlooked by experimenters. This is one of those ideas that crops up from time to time and sounds good until someone actually tries it.

In the early 1900s a Danish inventor named Schuboe (spelling from memory) designed a blowback .45 pistol firing a wooden bullet with an aluminum jacket, and submitted it for U.S. trial. It didn't make the grade, and the poor old U.S. was stuck with the Model 1911.

Jim
 
Just wanted to warn everybody melting Aluminum cause very harmful and maybe even deadly gases. if done do it out side.
 
Hello. It's my understanding that the only Silvertip bullet using any aluminum alloy is the .32ACP. The others are standard gilding metal that's been E-nickled. The core bullet is lead in all of them. Best.
 
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