Here an update with respect to the buck & ball load I am tinkering with.
I did a slug penetration test today and I tested my buck & ball load against a variety of commercial slugs.
The target were 4 pine boards stacked one behind each other …. and each board was 1.5 inches thick.
I shot the following slugs from around 7 to 8 yards (meters):
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From left to right:
1. Rio Brenneke
2. Challenger (Gualandi) Slug
3. Winchester 3” Rack Master
4. Federal TruBall
5. Sellier & Bellot Sport Slug (Low Recoil)
6. Federal Power Shok Sabot Slug (did not shoot that one)
7. My Buck & Ball load (690 Round Ball, 21 pellets of #4 buck, 29 grains of Blue Dot)
8. Aguila Mini Slug
Here the results:
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1. All the slugs penetrated 4 boards with the exception of the Aguila Mini Slug and the Sellier & Bellot Sport Slug.
2. The Aguila Mini Slug penetrated only 2 boards.
3. The 690 round ball of my Buck & Ball load penetrated all 4 boards.
4. Some of the #4 buckshot pellets penetrated one board (1.5 inches) by themselves
5. But what surprised me was that nearly half of the #4 buckshot pellets ended up inside of board number 4. It seems they traveled with the round ball (or behind the ball) through 3 layers of pine boards and then spread out an buried themselves into the 4th board.
Voila …. those are the results from today …
I wish I had bought one or two more boards and done the testing with 6 or 8 layers of pine boards … but I really did not think those slugs could go through so much wood .... Oh well … I guess that is what I have to test next time ….
Thoughts anybody?
Faustus