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Hi All,
I broke my "no Walmart" rule last night after I wrote the article on the Carpati as I was out of .380 practice ammo, and I as a bit impatient.
They were out of all .380 except for one box of WinClean.
I have a couple questions regarding what I bought.
First, it has a meplate with an exposed lead core:
Why is this? Why didn't they cap it off? Does it "splatter" better against backstops, reducing ricochet? Maybe I should hold a few back as test ammo.
Second, what are the differences between WinClean and the regular stuff? I know it has reduced lead, but are there any physical differences? It seems to me that if the primers were as good as the regular ones, everyone would have switched to these clean primers. Is there perhaps a bigger flash hole and not as much flame produced, or something along those lines?
At any rate, I will try to get out and accuracy test this stuff. My hand is still a bit tender so we'll see after a while. I may radius off the other side of the slide a bit as I did on the right side. Must be winter; I wasn't cut on the left side last time I did extensive shooting with it!
Josh <><
I broke my "no Walmart" rule last night after I wrote the article on the Carpati as I was out of .380 practice ammo, and I as a bit impatient.
They were out of all .380 except for one box of WinClean.
I have a couple questions regarding what I bought.
First, it has a meplate with an exposed lead core:

Why is this? Why didn't they cap it off? Does it "splatter" better against backstops, reducing ricochet? Maybe I should hold a few back as test ammo.
Second, what are the differences between WinClean and the regular stuff? I know it has reduced lead, but are there any physical differences? It seems to me that if the primers were as good as the regular ones, everyone would have switched to these clean primers. Is there perhaps a bigger flash hole and not as much flame produced, or something along those lines?
At any rate, I will try to get out and accuracy test this stuff. My hand is still a bit tender so we'll see after a while. I may radius off the other side of the slide a bit as I did on the right side. Must be winter; I wasn't cut on the left side last time I did extensive shooting with it!

Josh <><