Are my bullets to hard?

[AllOutdoors.22]

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Just wondering if you guys think my alloy is to hard. I don't have a hardness tester yet buy I will. I shot these out of my revolver (2" jframe) @ about 6 - 700 fps and found them in the backstop like this. Not the best medium I know but I expected some deformation. Backstop was sand and Pea gravel. TIA!

[mold maker]

The range scrap I've collected mostly all looks like that, unless it hits a rock or another boolit.

[Green Lizzard]

about the only thing i ever seen expand out of a snubby was an upside down hb wadcutter

[David2011]

Got a full sized (4-6") revolver to try 'em in? Pure Pb and some tin should be plenty hard for 700 fps.


David

[dh2]

get a lee hardness tester and find out about $50

[WILCO]

Just wondering if you guys think my alloy is to hard. I don't have a hardness tester yet.....

You'll never know for sure without a hardness tester.

[Hickok]

At 600-700 fps I don't think you could get any expansion with even pure lead. I have shot pure lead round balls out of .36 and .44caliber cap and ball revolvers at about 900 fps, and get little or no expansion, just rifling marks.

[hickfu]

Im sure there are people on this forum that will test the hardness for you if you send them a few samples... I am one of them! If you want to be sure of hardness you can either buy a Lee hardness tester or send a few and I will do it for you. If you want send me a PM

Doc

[AllOutdoors.22]

At what velocity do you guys find constantly reliable expansion?

[triggerhappy243]

in my experience, the only time i have seen "expansion" is when i hit the steel gong. if it is a hard lead there will be little to no deformation.... and not much more if it were pure lead.

[williamwaco]

I suspect they are NOT too hard.

That said, you cannot determine that with a 2" .38 Special.

It is virtually impossible to get any expansion with that firearm.

[dubber123]

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Fired from an 1-7/8" .38 Spl., through 4 layers of denim into water. They look identical when fired into pine wood, either across grain, or with it. 50% WW, 50% pure lead, air cooled, HP pre-plugged with boolit lube. NOT fired at 600 fps either. :)