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10mm Ammuntion => Factory 10mm ammo => Topic started by: FMS1890 on January 09 2019 04:33:59 PM MST

Title: Federal all-copper 180 gr. load
Post by: FMS1890 on January 09 2019 04:33:59 PM MST
Cabela's is listing Federal Premium Vital-Shok Barnes Expander Lead-Free 10mm ammunition with a 180 gr. solid copper bullet.  Does anyone know anything about it?  Federal doesn't seem to be listing it.  https://www.cabelas.com/product/Federal-Premium-Vital-Shok-Barnes-Expander-Lead-Free-Handgun-Ammunition/731953.uts?slotId=0
Title: Re: Federal all-copper 180 gr. load
Post by: The_Shadow on January 09 2019 06:00:38 PM MST
Well Barnes doesn't show a 180 grain offering TAC-XP or XPB line for 0.400" / 10mm.  A 18o grain would be quite long considering the  TAX-XP 155 grain is 0.732" long.

Barnes shows the 125 gr / 140 gr / 155 in the TAC XP lineup.
Title: Re: Federal all-copper 180 gr. load
Post by: Rojo27 on January 10 2019 11:33:36 AM MST
Think this one is a mislabeled.  It's their bonded offering, not Barnes bullet I'll bet.
As usual, Shadow is right....  180gr Barnes copper projectile would eat up too much case room. 

If you look at the bullet type discription for the 10mm in Cabelas link you'll see "TBJSP"...
I'll wager that stands for: Trophy Bonded Jacketed Soft Point. 
Title: Re: Federal all-copper 180 gr. load
Post by: The_Shadow on January 10 2019 02:21:09 PM MST
Rojo27, that is exactly what I was thing that it would be the Trophy Bonded Jacketed Soft Point.
Title: Re: Federal all-copper 180 gr. load
Post by: FMS1890 on January 10 2019 04:57:03 PM MST
I am wondering whether this may be a new addition to Federal's line of Barnes Expander hunting ammunition, with Cabela's initially selling it before it is cataloged, the way they did with Speer's 200 gr. Gold Dot load.  The price is quite a bit higher than the list price for the Trophy Bonded load, and more in line with the other Barnes Expander ammunition.  Maybe the TBJSP is a mistake.
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