Since this is a topic of long distance shooting, down range accuracy, and energy, I want to show you what I found in my bullet trap this morning. This is one of the finest long distance, accuracy, hard hitting bullets I have ever shot. From all the hunting reports, these bullets are really a good hunting bullet. Their drawback, they are expensive. Out of my Knight Disc rifle with 120 grains of Pyrodex RS they are accurate and I would guess deadly.

This is a 250 grain Barnes XPB Cannelured 454 Casull in .451 diameter all copper bullet. This bullet was fired at 100 yards with 120 grains of Pyrodex into a solid steel bullet trap. One might expect the bullet would fragment and loose a lot of its mass. Well the bullet still weighed 249.4 grains and had expanded to 7/8 of an inch with an almost perfect expansion pattern.

Now I am not saying that animal mass and bone would get this kind of expansion from the bullet, but I wouldguess that the weight retention would be about the same and that what ever expansion was encountered, if placed properly would lead to a very quick death for the animal being shot. But as I said, I pushed the bullet hard as the Knight almost demands it for accuracy. And the cost of the bullets being almost $1.00 each is not something I like to sit on the range and have a shoot for the day with...