Can you tell by looking the difference between the 123 AMAX and ELD-M?

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  • rickt300
    Warrior
    • Jan 2017
    • 498

    Can you tell by looking the difference between the 123 AMAX and ELD-M?

    The blem bullets I ordered from Midway look pretty much like the SST except no cannelure. I don't have an SST to compare as they are all in brass and I plan on shooting them. Does the ELD-M have a different color tip? The bullets have a bit of roughness just under the tips but otherwise look fine. I bet they will still shoot well enough to kill a few hogs before March gets past us and I turn into a fisherman again.
    Last edited by rickt300; 01-13-2017, 11:16 PM.
  • 1911man
    Warrior
    • May 2015
    • 482

    #2
    Yes, the ELD has a darker tip. If you look back about a month in the reloading section I have a thread where I just got a new box of ELD bullets and took a picture of the. Essentially the tips are closer to maroon while the AMAX tips are bright red.

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    • rickt300
      Warrior
      • Jan 2017
      • 498

      #3
      So the red tipped bullets must be AMAX as their tips are as red as red gets.

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      • LRRPF52
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        • Sep 2014
        • 8569

        #4
        If the tip can be deformed with your fingernail, they are likely AMAXs if there is no cannelure.
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        • rickt300
          Warrior
          • Jan 2017
          • 498

          #5
          First load data I produced. Since I didn't have any CCI 450's I decided to use my CCI 400 primers and BLC2 with these bullets. I don't have a chrony so all I am doing is working up a load and shooting them. My loading bench is 50 feet from my 100 yard shooting bench so I am loading them three at a time. My first close examination reveals that the factory load pushed the case head a bit into the ejector hole, about one case out of three has a slightly wiped spot on the case head. This is my first experience with Hornady dies, hmmm different but not hard to figure out. It is rainy and cold out so I am also shooting pretty fast. The first three shotter (29.5.0 grs BLC2, COAL 2.305) was a triangle with the two farthest apart bullets being at 1.07. Impact is a bit higher than factory. Primers look fine, caseheads clean. Next load was 30.0 grains same COAL, three shots into 1.6 as I threw the last one. 30.8 grains same COAL. Impact exactly where the factory load hit and group was .997. Primer still just fine and no case head deformation. Group size really can't be considered this round as I shot all three shots for all groups in less than 90 seconds per group. What did I learn, that I can run at least 30.8 grains of BLC2 under the 123 AMAX and that this COAL, powder and primer produce so so accuracy when shot quickly by me when I am getting drizzled on in the cold. So 9 shots fired through the HOWA, every one of which would have killed a hog out to at least 200 yards in a cold drizzle.
          Last edited by rickt300; 01-13-2017, 11:27 PM.

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