Originally Posted by
runfiverun
tim:
i went through this but backwards with home swaged 223 bullets.
i was getting too much penetration and no explosiveness,even with the thin 22lr brass.
i was using a fairly hard core and not annealing the jaxket.
as i progressed through core hardness and several different annealing depths on the jaxket nose i found i could control the expansion,and the violence it occured with.
i could go from penciling through a ground squirell to the bullet opening like a nosler to it opening like a varmint bullet all with the core hardness and amount of annealing and amount/type of exposed lead at the tip.
you now have a baseline type boolit, find a media and test what else happens compared to what you see here.
one deer isn't the whole picture but it, and what you shot it with, are enough of a start for a comparison in a different media.