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Newbie and although not handloads it is ammo related and this seemed to be the best place to put this thread. What is the difference in brown and silver bear besides the superficial case colors? Thank you for the help.

It seems that in various velocity tests that Silver Bear tends to be a bit faster than Brown Bear. Otherwise, it's just the case color. The coatings keep the steel case from sticking in the camber. The Brown Bear is laquered. Silver Bear is nickel or zinc plated. According to some websites they show the velocity to be the same, but I wouldn't see any point in different case coatings and to be no power difference. Oh well. Welcome friend!

Here is Sarge's results of various reloads and factory ammo. Results are at the very bottom.
http://p64resource.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=4268

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Brown bear jammed in my gun the nose of the bullet hit the top lip of the barrel I shot a whole box of blazer and no jams no nothing. I kinda don't like the coating on the brown bear, my brother shoots 54r brown bear no problems but again thats out of a bolt action rifle not a semi auto handgun. The coating just feels "sticky" to me and is more than likely on the cases to keep them from rusting since the are steel.