Got a few pounds of pulled projos from some 40-50 y.o. .270 and .22-250 reloaded ammo. Is this just scrap, or can they be melted down or reused? I don't have anything in .270, and prefer reloading 55gr hots for my 223. Would this stuff be helpful to someone as a pif?
Pulled projos
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WestKentucky
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Sell them to a reloader. .270 bullets are about 25 bucks per hundred and 22-250 are probably about the same. Those are "new" prices. If they are still in good shape then they are worth about half of that.
snuffy
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Please speak the lingo of shooting and reloading. Projo? I assume it's a shortened/abbreviation for projectile. Why not just use the commonly used word bullet?
I know that some are unwilling to use the word bullet because the libs use that word wrongly for the entire loaded round/shell/ammunition.
If those pulled bullets are not seriously corroded, they can be loaded and shot.
Ole Joe Clark
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What is a projo?
Load Master
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I'm glad I'm not the only one scratching my head. I don't know what a 40 - 50 y.o. is or what it has to do with reloading? 
Aw; come on, now.
Don't you know that identity seekers and the "gotta be different" ones have to do something to get attention and fit in to some cliques of humanity? Such as. . . .
Not tying their shoe strings.
Not stuffing their shirttail into their pants.
Modifying the English written or spoken language to suit popularity issues.
Wearing their baseball hat backwards or sideways.
Putting their pant's waistline even with their groin.
Fitting metal objects into their nose, lips, ears and eye brows.
Having a 2-foot strap hanging out of their pants pocket hooked onto their keys.
And so on. . . . . . .
Please; give the guy a polite break. He's probably a nice guy.
Pardon me if picked up some wrong terms from the Ammo types I work with. Glad I didn't confuse too many of you.
40-50 year old pieces aren't corroded, just have some patina. The only quantities worth notice are 50ea 130 gr .270 soft point spitzers, 50ea .224 soft point spitzers, and 25ea .308 110 gr FMJs.
Since Blarby's PIF thread died in July, I'll just clean them up a bit and put them on the table at the next show as freebies. Maybe someone can use them.
The brass all goes back to the guy who asked me to strip down his dad's reloads from the '60s; Many of the cases are corroded(green), so it can all go to the recycler.
40-50 year old pieces aren't corroded, just have some patina. The only quantities worth notice are 50ea 130 gr .270 soft point spitzers, 50ea .224 soft point spitzers, and 25ea .308 110 gr FMJs.
Since Blarby's PIF thread died in July, I'll just clean them up a bit and put them on the table at the next show as freebies. Maybe someone can use them.
The brass all goes back to the guy who asked me to strip down his dad's reloads from the '60s; Many of the cases are corroded(green), so it can all go to the recycler.
I just searched for the term projo and got 9 pages of threads here mostly in hand loading rifle country and black powder forums.
I find it funny that you think it's not a commonly used term and Bart thinks it's jargon used for the purpose of identifying with the shooting culture.
In any event the travesties of synonyms in the English language and living languages in general are much larger than THR. I suggest you contact Harbrace or perhaps a senator from California.
HighExpert
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Here is a term for you "yikes".
Dudedog
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Maybe trade to someone for lead to cast bullets with?
Don't give California any ideas
They might decide to ban the word or make you buy a special card and have a background check before using it and then you would only be allowed to use it face to face and not online.....
California produces a lot of nuts --- Almonds, pistachios, walnuts, and other kinds.
Don't give California any ideas
They might decide to ban the word or make you buy a special card and have a background check before using it and then you would only be allowed to use it face to face and not online.....
California produces a lot of nuts --- Almonds, pistachios, walnuts, and other kinds.
Found a THR member who'll take the .224, .270 and .308 for shipping, and still got plenty of .38Spl to tear down for lead to make some cannonball sinkers But it's kind of sad to see the PIF thread dead.
No worries, Bart. Got to fess up to the lanyard thing, I just call it a short timer's chain. Only this time it's for civilian retirement & none of the Airedales I work with got a clue what that is.
But it's kind of sad to see the PIF thread dead.No worries, Bart. Got to fess up to the lanyard thing, I just call it a short timer's chain. Only this time it's for civilian retirement & none of the Airedales I work with got a clue what that is.
snuffy
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when I first saw that"projo" I though it had something to do with contraception!
As far as I'm concerned, you can never have too much nomenclature, or specific words in a very complicated subject like reloading. Doing otherwise could be dangerous.
As far as I'm concerned, you can never have too much nomenclature, or specific words in a very complicated subject like reloading. Doing otherwise could be dangerous.
SAAMI has a glossary of terms. It means different things to different people. The two terms that, according to someone at SAAMI I talked to about them some years ago, that are often debated by fire arms folks are "magazine" and "clip." A close second is "head space." And in third place are the, "throat," "freebore" and "leade" parts of the chamber.
It took me about 5 seconds to figure out what he meant.
We have a couple of PIF threads. Looks like Blarby's lost steam, while bds's is still moving along.
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=698208&highlight=pif
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=760272&highlight=pif
We have a couple of PIF threads. Looks like Blarby's lost steam, while bds's is still moving along.
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=698208&highlight=pif
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=760272&highlight=pif
Amen.
GBExpat
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@SUBJ: Pulled projos
I am about 2 years short of having been reloading for half a century and I still periodically come across related terms or concepts that are new to me.
The "pulled" gave me a quick indication of what "projos" are even though this is the first time that I have ever come across that term.
I cannot ever imagine me using that term, but now I know that it is an accepted term used by more than one person.
"OH NO HE DI'N'T!"
I am about 2 years short of having been reloading for half a century and I still periodically come across related terms or concepts that are new to me.
The "pulled" gave me a quick indication of what "projos" are even though this is the first time that I have ever come across that term.
I cannot ever imagine me using that term, but now I know that it is an accepted term used by more than one person.
I must confess that I do not understand that since the freebore & leade are the component parts of the throat.
"OH NO HE DI'N'T!" Thank you for the links, Walkalong. On my first reading of dbs' rules for using his pif thread, I didn't think I met the requirements. Turns out as a previous 'gifter' on blarby's thread, I was eligible. Good to know, and another acronym applies: RTFQS (read the FULL question, stupid)
lol
To make a point, one day our high school English teacher handed out a test with instructions at the top that said to skip to the last question, answer it, and hand in the test. You can imagine everyone's reaction when she told us, after we struggled with the tough, except for the last question, test.
She sure got us that day. A great teacher and friend who left this earth a year or so ago. I'll miss her. She taught us many lessons in life in her classes.
According to SAAMI's glossary, the freebore & leade are not the component parts of the throat.
Some cartridge chamber freebore's have a slight taper to the leade/throat.
The .308 Win freebore is .310" diameter and .060" long.
There is no freebore for the .30-06 chamber the leade starts right at the chamber mouth.
Look at pages 110 and 95 in:
http://www.saami.org/specifications_and_information/publications/download/206.pdf
Some cartridge chamber freebore's have a slight taper to the leade/throat.
The .308 Win freebore is .310" diameter and .060" long.
There is no freebore for the .30-06 chamber the leade starts right at the chamber mouth.
Look at pages 110 and 95 in:
http://www.saami.org/specifications_and_information/publications/download/206.pdf
GBExpat
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<chuckle> Have you no sense of humor?
Swampman
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If you can't figure out from context what the OP meant by "projos" in his post, you're not trying very hard.
Especially when you consider that it was posted in the reloading forum.
Tips, pills, heads, slugs or boolits; any of them would be instantly clear as to meaning in the context used.
What else could anyone possibly think "projos" would mean in that sentence?
The OP comes into the handloading forum to give away free bullets and gets lectured for using a slang term?
That ain't us...
snuffy
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Thanks for making my point for me. We SHOULD NOT have to guess about what cute terms mean when related to loading ammo. This is an extremely termination rich hobby we are doing, precise terminology is necessary.
We still don't know how those bullets were pulled. A pliers in the die hole will pull bullets. Were they hammered free with a kinetic puller? Or one of the collet types like the RCBS or Hornady? Bonanza used to make a puller that slipped into the die ring slot in the co-ax press. It looked like a steel cookie/washeer, the center was slotted steel fingers that allowed the bullet to enter easily from the bottom,(up to and until the case mouth stopped the shell), then dug into the bullet to pull it when the press was reversed. These bullets were seriously dented, compressed and mangled. All they were good for was bore foulers, and maybe not even for that.
For cryin out loud getting called out because I want clear-concise terminology used in this complicated hobby, then say it is NOT worthy of high road standards is petty at best.
I've ranted before about spelling out a problem when asking a question. 2 short sentences about a loading question is followed by 20 or so guesses by good folks here who want to help, THEN the OP returns to explain his process like he should have to begin with.
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