Dimpled Berry Bullets in 380 . . .

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Prof Young

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Loaders:
So I'm getting the hang of loading 380s and then I notice that, even though all the settings are the same, I'm getting bullets of different length. That's when I notice that some of the Berry 100gn, flat bottom, round nosed bullets have dimples in the end. See attached pic. The dimpled bullets are from 10 to 17 one hundredths of an inch sorter than the full round nosed. I' imagine I'll save a hand full and send them to Berrys. This is from a bulk box of 1000 bullets.
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Yikes,

I've purchased a few thousand of Berry's .45 and 9mm over the last seven years and haven't ever seen that from them. Bummer.
 
One of their engineers is a friend and neighbor and the owner lives about 2 miles from me. He is a great guy and doesn't want any unhappy customers.

Call them. I am sure they will make it right.

Mel
 
Plan to send some to Berrys

Loaders:
As noted in original post I'm sending some to Berrys.
Dale, thanks for asking I'm getting the hang of reloading the 380 and have been happy with the first couple 100 rounds. I need to shoot my Sig P238 a bit more and, of course, reloading helps on the $$.

Live well, be safe
Prof Young
 
Berry's called . . . .

Loaders:
I got a call from Berry's. Had a nice chat with a guy whose name I can't remember. Said this happened once before a long time ago. Apparently the laser that does the quality control scan doesn't hit the end of the bullet as well as it could . . . or something like that. Anyway they appreciated that I sent them in and are sending me a box of 250 replacement bullets. He also said the bullets would be safe to shoot and shouldn't have any different trajectory that a non dimpled bullet.

Live well, be safe
Prof Young
 
Will do that . . .

Good idea Guffey. I'll sort those out and load separately . See how they shoot as a bunch.

Live well, be safe
Prof Young
 
I seen multiple companies with this exact sort of issue. Its not many, handful out of thousands.

They shoot fine, but they don't weight near the same as the batch, they are probably lighter. 1-5 grains.

I would not contact company, its not that much money and they still shoot. Its tolerable.
 
The last batch of Berrys 9MM 124 RN bullets had about 150 that were similar. It looked like they were adjusting their hollow point die. The billets were dimpled in various degrees with 1 that had nearly a fully formed hollow point in it, I shot all of them except the near hollow point. I didn't think the effort to send them back was worth it, used them for IDPA practice. Last couple times I tried to order from Berry they didn't have any. I bought last from Everglades and the bulletworks, last I bought are cast from Dardas, I may switch to cast, they are working very well so far and I've shot 5 or 600 so far. Good accuracy, minimal leading in my Citadel.
 
Terminal behaviours

Prof Young and Pete2, if you get anymore such dimpled projectiles, perhaps you could load and shoot them into some wet newspaper or other bullet-catching material, and report on their terminal behavior. It's likely that it is not much different than the un-dimpled ones, but you never know. You may have helped the bullet manufacturers stumble upon a new method of making expanding point projectiles.
 
Berry sent replacements . . .

Berrys sent me a 250 count box of replacement that arrived today. Thank you Berrys!

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Prof Young
 
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