{"id":175,"date":"2012-08-04T18:15:03","date_gmt":"2012-08-04T22:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/149.28.118.115\/?p=175"},"modified":"2012-08-04T18:15:03","modified_gmt":"2012-08-04T22:15:03","slug":"midway-usa-blemished-7mm-bullets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/2012\/08\/04\/midway-usa-blemished-7mm-bullets\/","title":{"rendered":"Midway USA Blemished 7mm Bullets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ordered<a href=\"http:\/\/www.midwayusa.com\/product\/642190\/blemished-bullets-7mm-284-diameter-154-grain-spitzer-box-of-100-bulk-packaged\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> these bullets from Midway<\/a>, because they were cheap. Over 10 cents a bullet less than the usual Hornady SST bullets I load for my Remington 700. ($0.149 cents a bullet) bringing my 7mm 154gr cost per round to 36 cents per shot vs 50 cents per shot.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSC02199.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-176\" title=\"DSC02199\" src=\"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSC02199-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThey look like Winchester Power Point bullets. but I guess they could be anything?<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSC02200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-177\" title=\"DSC02200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSC02200-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">From what I see the only blemish is how the copper jacket is around the lead soft-point. Other than that, they really look fine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSC02208.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-180\" title=\"DSC02208\" src=\"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSC02208-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Hornady SST&#8217;s(left) vs. Midway Blemished Bullets(right)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSC02201.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-178\" title=\"DSC02201\" src=\"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSC02201-300x292.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"292\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSC02206.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-179\" title=\"DSC02206\" src=\"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSC02206-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I found the bullet length and weight consistant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And they seemed to load fine. I gave them a CCI Magnum rifle primer, \u00a059 grains of IMR 4831 and seated to 3.240&#8243; \u00a0Tomorrow I plan on taking them out to the 200 yard range and see how they perform.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSC02219.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-181\" title=\"DSC02219\" src=\"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSC02219-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ordered these bullets from Midway, because they were cheap. Over 10 cents a bullet less than the usual Hornady SST bullets I load for my Remington 700. ($0.149 cents a bullet) bringing my 7mm 154gr cost per round to 36 cents per shot vs 50 cents per shot. They look like Winchester Power Point [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reloading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}