Muleskinner
Ultimate Member
So many years ago I bought a box of 1000 generic .308 bullets at a show. The guy there said they were pulls, 147 grain FMJBT. I need some plinking ammo for my AR10 and 300 BO so I thought I'd load up 500 of each from this box this evening. SO about 25 AR10 rounds in I dropped one of the bullets and it stuck to the magnet bar I have across the side of my bench. So I looked a bit closer and it appears only about 30% are straight lead and the majority are steel core. All 147 grain...SO getting to my question Are steel core and armor piercing the same thing or are they mild steel used in place of lead because it's less expensive? I know I should know this and I looked online but got conflicting answers.