Aluminum case nylon jacket?

[gasbag]

I was perusing my Cabelas catalog and found some ammo by Herter's.
It is aluminum cased with a nylon coated jacket.
It comes in 9mm, .40 and .45 calibers.
They seem to be less expensive than conventional ammo.
I realize of course they are not reloadable.

This is a curiosity question, I don't plan on dashing out and buying 12 boxes as yet.

Has anyone fired any of them? How did they function?
Do they seem to shoot cleaner or is there different kind of residue that you have to deal with?
The nylon jacket is something that made my little brain go.........."WHAT"???........and I am curious as to how they perform.

Thanks for any info you can give me.

 

[AUSSIEBOB]

Some of the guys over here are using them in 38special

 

[mike7mm08]

Have not shot them. But they are just a lead bullet with a nylon instead of copper jacket. Cannot confirm it but my suspicions is this is a blazer load contracted by cabelas. Blazer aluminum cases have been around for years with no trouble. The bullets are probable federal design speer made as they had a nylon jacketed bullet for awhile. Speer federal and blazer are all owned by the same parent company. So all well established companies and technology is behind this ammo.Herters is just a name that Cabelas bought.

 

[gasbag]

Have not shot them. But they are just a lead bullet with a nylon instead of copper jacket. Cannot confirm it but my suspicions is this is a blazer load contracted by cabelas. Blazer aluminum cases have been around for years with no trouble. The bullets are probable federal design speer made as they had a nylon jacketed bullet for awhile. Speer federal and blazer are all owned by the same parent company. So all well established companies and technology is behind this ammo.Herters is just a name that Cabelas bought.

Thanks for the info. I am fairly new to some of this and in spite of my extreme good looks I don't know a much about a lot of it.
I never saw that type of jacket before and was curious as to their characteristics and if they affected residue or made cleaning the gun easier.
I also had no idea Herters belonged to Cabelas.

 

[mike7mm08]

Federal offered bullets under the Ny Clad name forget what was all offered. These bullets appear a bit different but the technology appears to be the same.For a year or two Cabelas had a fairly complete waterfowl hunting line labeled herters. Last couple years it has been showing up on ammo, mainly Soviet made steel cased military calibers probable relabeled Wolf or Prvi Partisan.

 

[mattsbox99]

The performance is okay for plinking. They are loaded pretty light but should function in factory semi autos. I never noticed any buildup in the barrel, but I only shot about 20 of them

 

[Mobuck]

Simply a resurrection of the S&W Nyclad load in an aluminum nonreloadable case. Years ago, the fuzz claimed the Nyclad didn't retain the rifling signature like normal jacketed or lead bullets making crime investigations inconclusive.

 

[gasbag]

Nyclad didn't retain the rifling signature like normal jacketed or lead bullets making crime investigations inconclusive.

Wow. Now that is a characteristic I never thought of.................... :shock:

 

[protoolman]

The early Federal Nyclad didnt retain the rifling marks well. Federal did reformulate the jacket material later and the nyclads did indeed show the rifling marks after that. If I remember right the whole purpose was less leading and a "green" bullet for less contamination at indoor ranges.