Looking for some cheap plinking projectiles

[DavidR310]

Hi all,

Not asking for your super secret squirrel source for buying projectiles, just wondering what is a inexpensive brand for getting some 9mm and 223/5.56 projectiles. This will be used just for plinking.

Speer, Remington, Winchester, Hornady, Barnes?....................

[Na-vah-duh]

Depends on what your flavor of projectile is: lead, plated, or jacketed. With that said many places are out of stock of most. My favorite are extreme copper plated they are extremely reasonable on pricing and shoot great.

[DavidR310]

This will be mostly used at the Barstow shoot in April.

[Clownpuncher]

Xtreme is about the cheapest you will find for plated. Precision Delta is the cheapest for jacketed. Worst part about PD is you have to buy 2000.

[atdski07]

Wheel weights ........ Jk

[DavidR310]

Wheel weights ........ Jk

Your not kidding, lol.

Would these be ok through an XD9?

http://www.bayoubullets.net/9mm.html

[XDRoX]

I'm at work and can't click on the link but any bullet should work fine in an XD9, including wheel weight cast boolits.

Personally I use Berry's plated bullets in 9mm. They aren't the cheapest but they are a great product and I like supporting a good company. Precision Delta is about the cheapest you can get jacketed.

[johnny1290]

fwiw i've shot 1000s of ww bast boolits through my xd9 and it still shoots straight. Now about that trigger though...

[jdmacl]

http://www.goldenwestbrass.com/

[bcrich]

http://www.goldenwestbrass.com/

They haven't had anything in stock for about 2 yrs surprised the site is still up. They made awesome 223 and 308 projectiles back in the day!

[Nirrad]

+1 for Extreme plated 9mm 115g RN.

Been using Extreme for 380/38/45 and most recently 9. Probably done 5k of the 9 so far and really like 'em. Thick coating, consistent quality, and plenty accurate for punchin' paper or whatever.

[Dark Mod]

For Jacketed Precision Delta

Plated and hardcast ill throw in another vote for Xtreme.

Berry's makes some bullets i cant get anywhere else so i do buy from them semi frequently. They are great bullets, just a bit more expensive. For small qauntities they are great, big quantities, not so much. The reverse is true for Xtreme.

[cindynles]

For 9mm - 115gr:

FMJ - Precision Delta ($85/1000)
Plated - I don't usually shoot plated because its usually only a little more for FMJ
Black (molly) - Bear Creek ($65/1000)

[bigchinner]

I shoot xtreme bullets. Pretty good. Everything around that isn't a major brand has gone up in price alot. I've usually used smaller companies in US anyway.

[Whiterabbit]

cast. cast cast cast cast cast. Can't say it enough, even for 223. For plinking, you can shoot lead at 1500-2000 fps no issue. Folks do it all the time.

No way you can beat the price point. No way.