215gr ACCOWW .35 Rem at 1950fps into milkjugs of water at close range. Mostly just for testing velocities with paper jackets.
35 rem. Factory Hornady versus the silver stream in the form of a RCBS 35-200.
It is not hard to tell which one I prefer to kill deer with.
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From what I have seen and test, they tend to open just a tad easier. But again, not all pentas have same Hp cavity size and same amount of material sorounding cavity. Made from ww, in 9mm, they also tend to shread petals faster. Take them as a pre-programmed and faster way of expansion.
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Some good looking mushrooms
Well done !
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"I'll tell you what rule we applied sir,We applied rule 3-0-3, We caught them and we shot them, under rule 3-0-3." :Lt Harry " Breaker" Morant at his court martial in January 1902.
Here is the only cast bullet I have recovered from a game animal, a Cape Buffalo. A 20 yard frontal chest shot from my 577 BPE struck the heart doing major damage and was recovered in the paunch. Cast from linotype, weight 325 grains sized to .585 and powered by 64 grains of H-4198 estimated velocity 1600 fps. The bull ran 30 yards and was down but required two finishing shots through the front shoulders, unfortunately the skinners didn't recover either of those bullets. Next time I'm going to offer $5.00 per recovered bullet. The bullet on the left is as cast, the center bullet is a 30 caliber, the recovered bullet had lost only 7 grains in weight and the meplat was expanded as can be seen.
BIG OR SMALL I LIKE THEM ALL, 577 TO 22 HORNET.
I've never recovered a boolit from any animal I have shot.
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5shot I don't honestly know what the velocity is. 165gr bullet with 4895 @ 29gr is the load.
USAF (Retired) 1985-2005
This is a Lee 230 gr trunc out of my .45 at 10 meters on a steel plate. It weighs 101 gr... I thought it was kinda cool being completely flat.
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Tested these just before the beginning of season last year
Lee 312-155 wqcoww in 300 blk over a healthy load of h110 into water jugs shot over chrono
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NOE 45 Keith cast pure pb powered with 100 gr Pyrodex RS. Frontal shot Ohio doe at 45 yds, recovered at hips.
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What did you shoot that NOE out of with 100 grains of Pyro? GF
I haven't recovered any CBs from the game I shot but did do a wet newspaper test a few yrs back and was pleasantly surprised with the results.
This is my thread;
So today I set out to the range to carry out some long awaited ballistic tests with my 30-30 & 308. Powder used was IMR 3031 and BLC-2 (only for 30-30 w/Lee cast).
I used Ackland Granger catalogs and soaked for two nights. The bullets never made it passed catalog #2 but the 200gr 308 was pushing it
Moulds were Lee 170gr GC and NOE 165 GC for 30-30 and Lee 200gr RN GC for 308 Win (boolit weights came exact +/- .2grs with gas check). Alloy was a modified Lyman #2 which came to 13 BHN, Lube was L.L.A. thinned with mineral spirits.
Distance was 100yds.
I started the shoosting off with the 308 (Win 88). The first boolit I shot looked a little messy and I actually figured it would'nt have expanded at all but when I saw that it did I was happy but much much happier with the 2nd shot. This one formed a beautiful mushroom :rockOn:
And then this beauty;
This was the exact same alloy/boolit I used for last years cow moose
Now for the 30-30. This was my first step into the cast boolit rifle ctg world. I went with the Lee 170gr mould but will more than likely retire this mould since I just recently purchased the NOE mould off the EE here.
So here is the first shot with the 30-30 Lee mould-velocity is approx 2000fps;
Expansion was as expected;
And now the NOE 165gr
Much better I think.
And all 3 that I shot. The NOE closest to loaded cartridge was max load of 28.5grs IMR 3031 and the other was 25grs same powder
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |