ronlaughlin

52Bore made these bullets; sent them, and we shot them. Range to impact was 25 yard. Powder load was 50g Blackhorn.

























The bullet went through all six jugs; bounced off the phone books, and was picked up from under the horse. More damage was done the second, and third jug, than to the first jug. This was unusual; the damage to the heel of the bullet also seemed kinda unusual.

























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MountainDevil54

In the first pic, the nose looks like its 2 piece, like its an insert/lip. Am I seeing something or what?

ronlaughlin

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hunters_life

A couple of my molds for hollow point conical bullets leave a little ring like that. It's from the hollow pin inside the mold. The base of the pin leaves a mold ring. Though that does kind of appear to be bi-metal, I think it's just an optical illusion caused by that ring. It does look more like a drilled hollow though. Maybe the drill chuck left a ring? Never really seen a straight hollow like that. Always used a tapered pin set myself.
ronlaughlin, any idea what the hardness was on those bullets? Seems they would need to be just a touch softer for whitetail.

ronlaughlin

Pure lead.


















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hunters_life

That's a little hard to imagine. Pure lead should have deformed much more than that.

Muley Hunter

NoExcuses bullet looks the same way and it's pure lead.

ronlaughlin

The scratch through the rifling marks, i just made with my thumbnail.















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hunters_life

Wow. I'm amazed. I guess it's the weight or the slow velocity that 50 grains put it out at. My pure lead 350 grain .50cal conical bullets, well the only one I ever found, in the off side hide of an Elk anyway, mushroomed down to almost at the base of the bullet. But that was a slightly quarterd to me shot and hit right on the point of the shoulder. Found the bullet at the 6th rib about halfway through the hide. Chest cavity was a liquid mess. The evidence I've seen from the rest of the un-recovered were of extreme expansion with the exit wound being pretty massive. Started making them just a little harder for Elk.

Gm54-120

I would have guessed far more expansion also.