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Hi, Guys:
I did a little bullet testing this evening and I thought you'd find the results interesting.
The bullets were fired into water filled herbicide jugs at 20 yards with a Remington 700 with a 22" barrel. The jugs are 6 1/2 - 7" wide. All bullets blew up the first jug, split the second open and stopped in the third jug, except the 165 gr. Partition, which stopped in the fourth jug. All lost cores were in the third jug.
Factory Hornady 180 gr. Spire Point - Retained core in jacket, weighed 132.7 gr.
Factory Federal 180 gr. Hy-Shok - Lost core, jacket + core weighed 76.7 gr.
Factory Hornady 165 gr. Boat-tail Spire Point - Lost core, jacket + core weighed 105.8 gr.
Warm handloaded Remington 165 gr. Pointed Soft Point - Lost core, jacket + core weighed 102.7 gr. Another time a bullet from the same lot retained it's core, barely. I pryed it out with my finger nails.
Max handloaded Nosler 165 gr. Partition - Retained front core, weighed 117.2 gr. The rear core was retained, of course.
The 180 gr. results are in rough agreement with Gary Sciuchetti's (Handloader # 193, June 1998) although his bullets stood up to another 200 fps in wet phonebooks.
Bye
Jack
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I did a little bullet testing this evening and I thought you'd find the results interesting.
The bullets were fired into water filled herbicide jugs at 20 yards with a Remington 700 with a 22" barrel. The jugs are 6 1/2 - 7" wide. All bullets blew up the first jug, split the second open and stopped in the third jug, except the 165 gr. Partition, which stopped in the fourth jug. All lost cores were in the third jug.
Factory Hornady 180 gr. Spire Point - Retained core in jacket, weighed 132.7 gr.
Factory Federal 180 gr. Hy-Shok - Lost core, jacket + core weighed 76.7 gr.
Factory Hornady 165 gr. Boat-tail Spire Point - Lost core, jacket + core weighed 105.8 gr.
Warm handloaded Remington 165 gr. Pointed Soft Point - Lost core, jacket + core weighed 102.7 gr. Another time a bullet from the same lot retained it's core, barely. I pryed it out with my finger nails.
Max handloaded Nosler 165 gr. Partition - Retained front core, weighed 117.2 gr. The rear core was retained, of course.
The 180 gr. results are in rough agreement with Gary Sciuchetti's (Handloader # 193, June 1998) although his bullets stood up to another 200 fps in wet phonebooks.
Bye
Jack
<!--EDIT|Jack Monteith|June 02 2002,20:26-->