I went out this evening and peeled the barkaway from the firewood. After I did that I was able to find an exit hole in theside of the chunk of wood. If you can picture a clock with the bullet entering at six o'clock, the exit hole was about 2:30 on the right side. The bullet must have entered, hit the large knot in the center and turned, exiting the side. The exit hole was very small though. I almost missed it except I saw the hole on the inside of the bark I peeled. A much closer search then revealed the exit hole. That would explain why I did not find that exit wound the first time I examined the wood. I then began to split the thing into kindling wood.

Having found only the one exit hole I figured the second bullet would be in there somewhere. I finally was able to locate it lodged along side the knot in the the stump. The bullet had travelled about three inches into the wood, hitting the hard knot and coming to rest. I was actually aiming with both rounds for the spot where I had cut a limb off the original trunk.

The recovered bullet was 10mm in diameter on the bottom so I suspected it was the 10mm 200 grain XTP. It had expanded to 14mm at the very top of the bullet. So it almost was half again as big as the original. I then weighed it and discovered it still weighed 192.4 grains. It had been shot with 85 grains of American Pioneer Powder.

So the Shockwave with 100 grains of American Pioneer Powder was able to veer off and make its way out of the wood. The XTP simply expanded as much as possible and then came to rest about three inches into the chunk. I was impressed that it did hold its weight as well as it did. These 10mm XTP's are a tuff little bullet, and very accurate.