Another Milk Jug Test

[Hickory]

A few days ago I posted pictures of my milk jug test of NOE's 314-129HP.
The result was very good as far as expansion and penetration.

Today I fired the same load through a different gun
S&W model 16-4, .32 Magnum with 6" barrel.

Load= NOE's 314-129HP 95/5% lead/tin, Starline brass, 4.0 grs Unique and CCI 500 primer.

I figured that I'd get higher velocities with the 6" barrel, so I set up an extra milk jug, than the boolit penetrated before, (it went through 2 jugs and stopped in the third, I set up 4 jugs.

Both shots were fired from 20 ft. Even at that distance I got splashed with water.

The boolit on the left is the one that was fired through the Ruger Single-Six that has a 4 5/8" barrel. The fired boolit in the center was fired through the S&W 16-4.
The boolit traveled through 3 jugs and almost exited the 4th jug, the far side of the 4th jug was split but the spent slug was inside the 4th jug.

The retrieved boolit weighted 114.6grs and expaned to .566"

[kirb]

Hickory,

Hope to shoot tonight when I get off work. I loaded with tight group in one group and Unique for the other. I started with 3.8gr on the Unique for the 32 mag, 4.0gr in the 327. hope for the same success you are having. Thanks for posting, great pictures.

Kirb

[Blammer]

now THAT'S a really good pic!

[Fire_stick]

I love to shoot milk jugs. I hear you can put a piece of dry ice in 'em and get spectacular results.

[Edubya]

Hickory, you ought to be a professional photographer.
Could you share some info on the alloy, BHN and the FPS of that load (even if it is approximate)?
EW

[Fly]

I must get some milk jugs.That really works well.

Fly

[Hickory]

Hickory, you ought to be a professional photographer.

Well, I use to do wedding for almost 12 years. Nice way to go to
weddings and get a free meal.
Give it up when collecting money was no longer worth the effort.

The camera is just an inexpensive Nikon

[Hickory]

I just thought of an analogy;
Shooting milk jugs is like socialism
Socialism, you quickly run out of other people’s money.
Shooting milk jugs, you quickly run out of water.

[PAT303]

So Hickory your next thread could be Beginners guide to taking photo's.Mate you have to be happy with the boolit performance. Pat

[357maximum]

I am not a mycologist but them look like some very deadly mushrooms.

[hoosierlogger]

So Hickory your next thread could be Beginners guide to taking photo's.Mate you have to be happy with the boolit performance. Pat

The first thing you can explain is how you took a picture of your camera with the camera you took the picture of the boolits with. Explain that will ya!!!

[walker77]

I love to shoot milk jugs. I hear you can put a piece of dry ice in 'em and get spectacular results.

What happens?

[Old Goat Keeper]

That's one nice Smith Hickory! You ever want to give it a new home I'm interested! I also gots to get me one of them NOE molds for my 327.

Tom

[Hickory]

So Hickory your next thread could be Beginners guide to taking photo's.Mate you have to be happy with the boolit performance. Pat

I'll say this, the key to a good photo is lighting.
From both sides and above is a good place to start.
And try not to use the on-board flash.
Use your macro mode for close-up pictures.

[PAT303]

Macro mode???. Pat

[Hickory]

Macro lens;
a lens used for close-up photography that produces a life-size or
larger image on film, with a minimum of 1:1 object-to-image ratio

[JeffinNZ]

Hey Hickory! What is the season on them milk jugs o'there. Here we can only hunt them in months that have a 'R' in them.............. LOL.

[Ian Robertson]

Jugs and Mushrooms, a most excellent BBQ! In Canada Eh!

[ghh3rd]

I see your fingerprints on that gun...

What model CoolPic is that thing?

[Fixxah]

My pants got tighter looking at that gun porn.