Before coming back home yesterday, I made a stop at the grocery store to have a look at the gun mags. They've been pretty low in number in the last two month and they were down to two, one being Guns and Ammo, May 2007.
This issue has a little piece on reduced loads in rifles by John Haviland.
He talks about jacketed bullets;
he uses light ones;
he says to use a filler, like Pufflon(?).
I'm not sure he means pufflonlike, or filler in general; or of how much shooting he has done (He gives only a couple of loads as "examples").
Any thoughts; experience...?
I mostly shoot cast bullets but I have to reckon that some hard cast bullets might have as much drag as a short jacketed one... and the only ones I got stuck in my push-through sizing dies were linotype cast, not soft core JHP's...
So, is the golden rule about not using fillers with jacketed bullet..... an exaggeration (Not that their use with casts is already that much of a recommendation...)?
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(For the beginners among us, fillers are blamed for delaying the pressure wave from reaching the bullet, therefore creating a dangerous peak of pressure rather than a progressive "push". This would be aggravated by the stronger drag of a jacketed bullet.)