DanWalker
03-30-2008, 01:19 AM
Hi guys,
I managed to sneak away from the rig today and do some experimenting.
I tested some soft alloy boolits against some ACWW boolits.
If you look at the pics, you'll see 4 bullet holes in the book.
The top and bottom holes are from the 320 grain mould that the hammer boolit mould was copied from. Both boolits were cast from an alloy of 9 parts pure lead, and one part WW's.
The load was 18 grains of 2400 and the range was 10 yards. I wasn't sure of my sight settings for this load and didn't want to miss.
The bottom hole in the thick book is an entrance wound produced after the boolit fiirst penetrated a 1" thick water soaked book, and a full one gallon water jug. I was trying to simulate a boradside shot on a medium game animal. The top hole was made by the same boolit, but it was fired directly into the book.
The center hole was made by a 255 grain keith SWC from our Group buy a while back. it was pushed by 18 grains of 2400 also, and cast of ACWW's.
The hole to the left of center was made by a 200 gr hornady xtp fired from my 44 bulldog.
All loads exited and no boolits were recovered. This is what i wanted. i wanted to examine the wound channels and view the exits. I've never had a hunting load stay in an animal, so I find it rather pointless to stack up the medium to catch them. The third picture shows the exits.
I'd say I got some expansion on the 320's..... Note the reverse dimpling of the entrance wound on the top entrance hole. That's evidence of the hydraulic effect I've described with this boolit.
I managed to sneak away from the rig today and do some experimenting.
I tested some soft alloy boolits against some ACWW boolits.
If you look at the pics, you'll see 4 bullet holes in the book.
The top and bottom holes are from the 320 grain mould that the hammer boolit mould was copied from. Both boolits were cast from an alloy of 9 parts pure lead, and one part WW's.
The load was 18 grains of 2400 and the range was 10 yards. I wasn't sure of my sight settings for this load and didn't want to miss.
The bottom hole in the thick book is an entrance wound produced after the boolit fiirst penetrated a 1" thick water soaked book, and a full one gallon water jug. I was trying to simulate a boradside shot on a medium game animal. The top hole was made by the same boolit, but it was fired directly into the book.
The center hole was made by a 255 grain keith SWC from our Group buy a while back. it was pushed by 18 grains of 2400 also, and cast of ACWW's.
The hole to the left of center was made by a 200 gr hornady xtp fired from my 44 bulldog.
All loads exited and no boolits were recovered. This is what i wanted. i wanted to examine the wound channels and view the exits. I've never had a hunting load stay in an animal, so I find it rather pointless to stack up the medium to catch them. The third picture shows the exits.
I'd say I got some expansion on the 320's..... Note the reverse dimpling of the entrance wound on the top entrance hole. That's evidence of the hydraulic effect I've described with this boolit.