Cor-Bon bullets - not cartridges, but bullets

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Big Al

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I just bought a box of Cor-Bon 32ACP 60gr HPs. To me, they look somewhat less-than-top quality. The lead inside the jacket, around the mouth of the cavity, seems to be splayed out around the cavity rim, like someone has filed the bullet tips flat with a file.

I also looked at some 124gr+P in 9mm. The bullet is a lot different from my other Cor-Bons of the same weight that I bought a couple of years ago. My old cartridges have a bullet that has no deep hollow cavity like conventional HPs, just a very shallow dish shaped cavity with the jacket totally encasing the lead. There are also pre-weakening lines on the jacket radiating outward from the center of the "dish" where a hollow space would be with a regular HP. They look like (I think) some Golden Sabers I had shot long ago.

The new Cor-Bons I saw in the store are made just like the 32ACPs, with a conventional hollow point and the lead shavings around the rim.

Are these new HPs Cor-Bon are using okay, or did I get an inferior batch? And what kind of bullets are in my old Cor-Bons?

thanks!



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Glock 19
S&W 629 Classic
KelTec P32

"Oh yeah? Well I talk LOOOUDLY! And I carry a BIIIGGER stick! And I'll use it, too." -Yoesemite Sam
 
Cor-bon uses, in its defensive handgun loads, Sierra or Speer hollowpoints. Word is that you can choose between the Sierra (fragments easy) or Speer Gold Dot Bonded HP (does not fragment).

HTH,

Justin

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Justin T. Huang, Esq.
late of Kennett Square, Pennsylvania
 
The CORBON 32ACP 60gr JHP is now in it's second incarnation. The first were indeed sorta funky looking but worked just fine in our factory test guns and my personal 32ACP pistols.
The new bullets are a much cleaner looking JHP that seem to feed a bit better in some of the K-T 32 pistols. Our factory test guns have gobbled these up incessently. Also, we do not use SPEER bullets and the others are made for us on contract.

[This message has been edited by TERRY MURBACH (edited July 27, 2000).]
 
Terry,

I assume you work for Cor-Bon. :-)

The thing that worries me about these new 32ACP bullets is that they don't look uniform AT ALL. The cartridge looks fine from the side, but when you look down into the cavities of the HPs that's where all the sloppiness is. The bullets look like they were a FMJ with a hollow center to begin with, and then someone filed or belt-sanded the tips off of them to expose the cavity inside. The hole is WAY off center on all but two bullets, and none of the holes are circular; they all have lead "shavings" around the rim.

The reason I'm concerned is that these bullets definitely do NOT look like the Cor-Bon quality I've come to expect. I've been carrying Cor-Bon in my Glock ever since I've owned it, but this is the first 32ACP Cor-Bon I've bought and I was surprised by the lack of bullet quality.

What's your take?



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Glock 19
S&W 629 Classic
KelTec P32

"Oh yeah? Well I talk LOOOUDLY! And I carry a BIIIGGER stick! And I'll use it, too." -Yoesemite Sam
 
Have you sampled the same cartridge from several different stores? There once was a dealership that reloaded ammo and sold it as factory stuff (the shop has since closed its doors...wonder why).

It's worth a shot.
 
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