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- From: mfolenta@pica.army.mil
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Bullets & magnetism - The End
- Message-ID: <9301211332.aa26606@claudius.pica.army.mil>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 04:01:54 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- Man, I'm starting to think I need to bring all my home gadgets
- to work so that I have all my toys and stuff with me when I post things.
-
- OK, here goes :
-
- # ## Wayne J. Warf writes :
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- # # #I bought some Czech made Sellior & Bellot 9mm Para FMJ. I had read
- # # #that this had a nickel plated copper jacketed bullet.
-
- -- snip-O-matic --
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- # # and Ed Rudnicki wrote :
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- # # Steel jackets, on the other hand, are perfectly acceptable. This is what
- # # you've got in the case of the Czech and Portuguese ammo. The commercially
- # # packaged Sellier and Bellot 9mm also has a steel jacket. Most of my surplus
- # # ammo is steel jacketed.
-
- > and I wrote:
-
- --snip-- Comment about magnetic nickel alloys deleted
-
- # references in this case). And a good nickel plating job entails underplating
- # with copper first, so I can't quite see why someone would go to all that trouble
- # to nickel plate some steel instead of just using nickel-based jackets. (not that
- # it isn't possible, just that _I_ can't see why they'd do it that way. No flames)
- #
- --snip-- Comment about Winchester Silvertips being Aluminum jacketed deleted
-
- Well, short of doing a full lab analysis on what the Sellier & Bellot 9mm
- Para FMJ bullets are, I now say that those things _are_ steel jacketed.
- And they actually DID do the steps of putting a copper plate on top of the
- steel and then a nickel plate on top of the copper plate. Crazy way to go
- I still think, but what the heck.
-
- ***** These are my opinions. Get your own. :-) *****
- Michael Folenta | U.S. Army ARDEC
- Future Weapons Branch | Picatinny Arsenal, NJ 07806-5000
- email mfolenta@pica.army.mil | (201) 724-3880 [AV 880-3880]
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