I was hoping for some guidance to select a proper alloy for this 45-70 bullet.
It’s an MP 462-420 with the Penta pin installed. The alloy was XRF scanned at about 1.6% antimony and no tin at all which amazes me after what I mixed up to get to it but that’s another thread.
So I added a fair amount of solder to the pot to get good fill out. Probably not as much as I thought I added.
I figured this was the easiest HP style to get to expand. I was right 😁
I was pushing them about 1550 FPS. Well they tore back and shed the petals leaving just the bottom two driving bands.
They flew clean through 16” of ballistic gel and were caught in a box of rags I used as a backer.
I’ll probably load the rest of them over 12 grains of unique figuring that would give some pretty looking expanded bullets just to have something to look at while I work up a proper alloy.
However the whole point of this it to find an alloy that will work for a 1500 FPS or so load and hopefully not tear apart.
Is that possible? Am I just way shy on the tin? Should I run more antimony?
I also going to try the cup point and the regular hollow point with this same alloy.
I’m hoping the smaller hollow will hold together better.
If the Unique load works well I might just load up a bunch for a buddy for his light loads for whitetail. My guess is. 405 at 1100 will drive clean through a whitetail.
This same alloy and scaled down Bullet design in a 38 at those speeds mushrooms beautifully.
Thanks all for the advice!