Strange little bullets

[Roper]

A friend gave me a bunch of reloading stuff from a friend the other day, He got it from someones wife when her husband past passed. In with all the other stuff were these odd little .308 diameter bullets. I've never seen anything like this before...has anyone else seen these? What the heck are they?

 

[dougader]

They look a little like the old Speer 100 grain plinkers, but the Speer bullets are round-nosed.

 

[eric conrad]

Yep, they look like the Speer or Sierra plinkers.
With some 2400 in the 30 carbine they are good bullets.
Eric

 

[mike7mm08]

Here you go. Only find load data for these in 30 carbine.

http://www.hornady.com/store/30-Cal-.308-100-gr-Short-Jacket/

 

[Pocketfisherman]

I would imagine the copper jacket on the bullet's bearing surfaces would keep lead out of the rifle's gas system, while still being less expensive than a completely jacketed bullet.

 

[Roper]

I knew someone here would know, Thanks for the replies.

If anyone has use for them let me know, free, all I need is an address...

 

[Skalkaho Slim]

Now that is a heck of a gas check! :lol:

I'd love to try those out, PM sent.

 

[Tellico]

Don't push these too fast if you get them. I loaded some in my 300 Win mag for practice and after five shots at 100 yds with no hits I discovered they were disintegrating in the air about 40-50 ft from the muzzle. Put a target at 25 yds and had a shotgun pattern. I can't recall the load. :lol:

 

[JohnM]

Those are the old Hornady Short Jacket.
They quit making them, but I don't remember when it was.
I used to use a lot of them in 30 caliber stuff as a plinker because they were cheaper than the Speer Plinker.

 

[Roper]

Thanks Gents, I have a couple of offers to take them off my hands...

 

[mike7mm08]

Those are the old Hornady Short Jacket.
They quit making them, but I don't remember when it was.
I used to use a lot of them in 30 caliber stuff as a plinker because they were cheaper than the Speer Plinker.

Hornady shows them on their website and midway lists them in stock.

 

[JohnM]

Hm, yes I found that.
Sometime back I tried to buy some more and couldn't find them.
Then found some thing saying they were discontinued, thought it was on the Hornady site.
They've sure gone up since the last ones I bought.
A good light duty bullet. But then, I've always like Hornady.

 

[jimbo1096]

If no one else steps up, I could use them. Just starting to get stuff together for reploading the 30 Carbine Blackhawk.

 

[JohnM]

I bet they would be good in the BH.
When I got mine I dug through bullets thinking I had a box of those Hornadys left, but didn't.

 

[Cherokee]

Those are great in 30 Carbine, been using them for many years and still have a bunch. And they do work good in the Ruger 30 C SA's. I had read Hornady discontinued them, glad to hear they are available again.