I need help identifying a 55gr .224 bullet.

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thump_rrr

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I've been cleaning my reloading room this weekend and I found 30 bullets which I bought in a mixed batch of bullets a few years ago.
Since my progressive press was setup for 55gr Hornady FMJ I decided to load these 55gr hollowpoints to see what they would do.
I loaded them with 24.5gr of IMR 8208 XBR with CCI 400 primers in Federal brass and gave them a light crimp.
The pictue below shows the bullet in question flanked by a 69gr SMK on the left and a 55gr Hornady FMJ on the right.
You can see how large the hollowpoint is compared to the SMK.
It has a solid base like the SMK.
The coke bottle look of the bullet in question is because of the crimp when it was loaded.



Both the groups below are 5 round groups.
I pulled the last round on both groups due to nerves.
These groups were shot at 50M indoors through my Stag 3G on a bipod with no rear bag.

 
Ummm... can't answer your question... but that is a pretty heavy crimp.

If there are only 30 of them... I would just load them with a middle of the road load.
 
If I come across bullets that just seem to come out of nowhere or I do something to them that causes them to be less then perfect but still loadable . I mark what they are and put them up for the zombie apocalypse .
 
So these are pulled bullets and you want to know about the middle bullet.
All we can do is guess just like you except you more likely have more info that we do. Heck I guess I will have to get out my crystal ball. Oh shucks I lost it.

The tooling on the canalure looks very much like the taller hollow point. But not exactly.

It's time to pull out all of those manuals that every loader should have for reference. I have a dozen or so manuals but I'm giving you the job.:p
 
It looks like a Sierra 55 gr BTHP. ...But Sierra doesn't put a cannelure on them.

Hundreds of other options. No good way to narrow it down.
:confused:
 
Longshot4 said:
So these are pulled bullets and you want to know about the middle bullet.
All we can do is guess just like you except you more likely have more info that we do. Heck I guess I will have to get out my crystal ball. Oh shucks I lost it.

The tooling on the canalure looks very much like the taller hollow point. But not exactly.

It's time to pull out all of those manuals that every loader should have for reference. I have a dozen or so manuals but I'm giving you the job.
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The closest I've come up with is the 55gr Sierra Game King except for the lack of a cannelure.
They were in a bulk batch of 4,000 bullets which I bought for $200.00.
The majority of the bullets were, from my best guess, 62gr SS109, Hornady 55gr FMJ, and some 69gr SMK's
 
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