.35 Rem and steel plate

[Leslie Sapp]

We finally loaded up some RCBS 200-FN's for the boy's 35. He wanted to see what it would do to a steel plowshare he dug out of my iron pile. It's just shy of 1/4" thick.

The penetrating rounds are AC WW, 2% tin 200 gr FN's over 37gr varget at 40 yds.
The one that just dented it is a AC WW, 2% tin lyman 358156 over 10 gr unique.
I knew what factory j-bullets would do to steel plates, but I admit I was surprised at this from a cast boolet.

[Dthunter]

Cast Lead boolets penetrate wayyyy deeper than most people think.

I have seen 311299's shot at 1850fps, penetrate through 4" of hard wood at 500 yards!
Two of 4 boolets at this range penetrated the wood.

My plate still recieves some surface damage at 300.

[geargnasher]

A 190-grain, .30 caliber paper-patched boolit of ACWW+1% tin at 2480 fps punches neat holes in 3/8 boiler plate at a 45-degree angle, ruined one of my boolit traps with that one.

Gear

[Leslie Sapp]

What were you shooting that.30 cal out of? What accuracy? I've been thinking about trying cast in smaller calibers, but didn't think I could get the velocities I wanted.