Powerbelt held together

frontier gander · 05-26-2007, 05:05 PM

My nephew was out shooting his 22 and he went and filled up a gallon jug and was shooting it. I got ready and filled up two 1gallon milk jugs and one of those big liquid laundry detergent jugs. Grabbed a pizza box and but that all behind the jugs, got the camera all set up, hit the record button, or so i thought. the 225 grain aerotip bullet sliced the two thinner milk jugs in half, the heavy plastic container had a clean enterance bullet hole, an exit hole that had splits 4" long running around the top and bottom of the bullet hole. Pizza box had a clean hole. I figure that if the bullet can hold up all again that and keep going, I'll be using it for deer this year. Sadly this movie did not show up. I'll never buy a Kodak camera again, nothing but trouble with this thing since day one. Didnt find one piece of copper or lead from that bullet.

I did however load up a 1 gallon milk jug with water and placed a 4" thick split log behind the jug and the same pizza box behind it. I made sure this time the camera was rolling and this video finally took.
Load: 70 grains Triple 7, 225 grain aerotip powerbelt.
Distance : 32 yards.

I know some of you guys cant watch videos due to internet speed so heres what the bullet did.

Shot hit the water jug a couple inchs high of my bulls eye, Split the jug in half, You should have seen the massive amount of water that shot out. Im talkin SHOT out lol. You guys that are able to watch the video, Keep an eye to the right side of the tree and take note to all that water!
Bullet impacted the 4" log with a nice clean hole and exited and left spliters of wood the size of a golf ball. Total pass-thru and the bullet kept going.

http://s96.photobucket.com/albums/l2...Picture001.flv

cayugad · 05-26-2007, 05:42 PM

Frontier Gander that sounds very encouraging for the powerbelt. And this was just a standard powerbelt to boot. It should be deadly on deer and with the kind of penetration you are getting, I think bigger game could be considered.

frontier gander · 05-26-2007, 05:44 PM

Yeah i was happy with it. Im getting ready to set up 4 or 5 logs this time and see how many it will make it through before coming to a stop. I feel comfortable with this load on deer.

frontier gander · 05-26-2007, 06:15 PM

That 225 grain bullet is amazing. I couldnt set up all the logs i wanted to but i set up Three 2x6's in a row and put a 20lb Dried Pinon log behind it. I fired and didnt see the target fall and was like WTF did i miss? Take a look at it was a little high but dead center of the bulls eye lol. Im like ok, i'll take that, i went through the boards and everyone of them had a bullet hole and the chunk of pinon stopped the bullet! Went just a little over 3" deep and i found a beautifully mushroomed powerbelt. That pinon was hard, 7 swings with my 10lb ax before i broke it in half and a couple little smacks to break it open enough to take the bullet out. Im happy as hell with this bullet and how it held up. Theres also a movie i'll add once it finishes uploading. You guys will see in the movie that the target hardly moved when the bullet impacted.

Gotbuck · 05-26-2007, 06:52 PM

Well I'm still on dial up, but it sounds that at short range the bullet is holding up well. At 70 grains of powder it packs some awesome power. My question is I hear a lot of people say the bullet doesn't hold up at longer ranges 100 or so. Is this because they may be pushing the bullet to hard, say using 120 grains and up. I have never used them but the platinum series interest me especially in heavy timber where I hunt. have you weighed the bullet to see how much is retained after that shot?

frontier gander · 05-26-2007, 07:06 PM

i only have an Oz scale and it shows up as 0.6oz
Long range with the 245 and 295, ive used and all shots were enter/exit. Ive even used 150 grains RS loose with a 295 and that shot was a clean pass-thru shot that drop the deer. Lungs, heart,liver were, Well they didnt look like they are supposed to

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I just weighed two .440 roundballs that are 130 grains each and they shown up as 0.5oz. So theres 160 grains right there @ 0.5oz. I wish i had another powerbelt to weigh off the actual OZ weight when new.

frontier gander · 05-26-2007, 07:07 PM

Heres the other movie. Now that i watched it, That sucker did put a lot of force on that log.

Guess it'd help if i added the link

http://s96.photobucket.com/albums/l2...nt=Picture.flv

n5638b · 05-26-2007, 08:16 PM

I've had the same happen with my 50 cal. 295 grain powerbelt aerotips, 100 grains of pyrodex. Took a plastic milk crate, filled it with newspapers 14 inches thick, soaked them in the sink overnight, shot it at 100 yards expecting to find the slugs somewhere inside. All 3 shots passed clear through. Had to dig a foot into the dirt berm to find the slugs and they were barely deformed. My rifle really likes these bullets, drew a ml bull tag for September....not sure whatthey'll do in the field, but I have alot of confidence so far.

Pglasgow · 05-26-2007, 08:58 PM

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ORIGINAL: n5638b

. . . expecting to find the slugs somewhere inside. All 3 shots passed clear through. Had to dig a foot into the dirt berm to find the slugs and they were barely deformed. . .

But they ain't supposed to do that

. You didn't instruct them to blow up on impact?

Them powerbelts need to learn their place and behave.

Congrats on the bull tag. Good luck!

viking421a · 05-27-2007, 12:03 AM

Had a complete passthrough on a cow elk at 66 yds with a 348 AT powerbelt with two 777 pellets. Went right through both lungs and nicked the shoulder on the off side coming out as she was quartering slightly. Only thing I have shot with them so far and did the job.