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GENERAL => Ammunition, questions, and handloading techniques => Topic started by: Rigidman on October 31, 2019, 06:08:08 AM

Title: Federal 200 & 210 grain synthetic in .40 s&w.
Post by: Rigidman on October 31, 2019, 06:08:08 AM

Anyone try these? Give me the good and bad. Haven't had a handgun in sometime. So progress as proceeded without me. Now I need to catch up. The ballistics seem good for a round heavy enough for a .45.

Title: Re: Federal 200 & 210 grain synthetic in .40 s&w.
Post by: SI VIS PACEM PARRABELLUM on October 31, 2019, 07:22:21 AM

In one of your earlier posts you said you had a Taurus in .40. Buy some rounds and try them in the Taurus and see how they run. Your results are the best info you can get.

Title: Re: Federal 200 & 210 grain synthetic in .40 s&w.
Post by: Wobbly on October 31, 2019, 08:35:33 AM

SVPP is correct. Due to a huge number of variables between handguns, results in your buddy's gun may not even come close to matching yours. Sure there's accuracy, but the most important aspect is in the "feeding". Generally, for plinking ammo you'll want to try at least 2 mags full to test the feeding. For SD ammo you may want twice that much.

Save all your brass. You might get so feed up with the cost of factory loads you'll decide to load your own.

Title: Re: Federal 200 & 210 grain synthetic in .40 s&w.
Post by: Rigidman on October 31, 2019, 06:09:59 PM

Yeah also have a .40 tanfoglio  Witness on the way. I all ready have a box on the way. I tried a box of aluminum cased ammo once when it first came out. It flew off course so far it hit a target in next lane. I was lucky if it hit my target. Now they fixed it. I think. Believe it was blazer? I just never heard of synthetic encased bullets. The cases are brass.

Title: Re: Federal 200 & 210 grain synthetic in .40 s&w.
Post by: ReloaderFred on November 01, 2019, 10:09:44 AM

It's called Syntech, and has a polymer coating on the soft lead bullet.  Here's the link:  https://www.federalpremium.com/handgun/syntech/

Several companies offer bullets with Polymer coatings, Badman Bullets is one, and the polymer coating is different than powder coating, which is a paint.  The polymer coating is a tough outer layer that will deform with the bullet, whereas powder coating doesn't, so don't confuse the two.

Hope this helps.

Fred

Title: Re: Federal 200 & 210 grain synthetic in .40 s&w.
Post by: Rigidman on November 02, 2019, 04:01:59 AM

Thanks everyone. I wached some YouTube videos about them. Harsh round.