The Frontier Sixshooter Community Message Board - Testing Bullet Hardness https://sixshootercommunity.com/forum/ The Frontier Sixshooter Community Private Message Board en Testing Bullet Hardness (reply) Set up a jig and you could form hollow points that way... :-D

]]> https://sixshootercommunity.com/forum/index.php?id=67941 https://sixshootercommunity.com/forum/index.php?id=67941 Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:01:19 +0000 Paul Testing Bullet Hardness I was wondering how the plated .45 ACP bullets compare to the jacketed bullets. So I took a couple factory jacketed bullets and a couple of the plated bullets and put them nose to nose in my vise, then slowly closed it.


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The harder bullet will always show up. Before a got a lead hardness tester I tested my cast bullets this way.

]]> https://sixshootercommunity.com/forum/index.php?id=67940 https://sixshootercommunity.com/forum/index.php?id=67940 Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:25:23 +0000 JimT