ORIGINAL: frontier gander
Heres 2 recovered powerbelts from my range. These were recovered after i shot 3 rounds. 225 grain powerbelt aerotips driven by 70 grains pyrodex P @ 58 yards. These bullets hit inside my rock cave that i shoot into. As you can see, When shooting a lower charge, these bullets mushroom like they should and will do an excellent job on game.
This one lost some weight, But common! It hit solid stone with no give to it! Both of these recovered bullets were the size of quarters.
Unfired powerbelt. Take notice to picture 1 and the unused powerbelt and look at the #'s on the scale.
Again, Im just trying to help you out with using the powerbelt the proper way.
Again you shot 70g, which is a good speed for a PB, Pglasgow says <= 1400 fps. Why does PB publish this:
http://www.powerbeltbullets.com/docs/PBB26inchballistics.pdf and all these for it ballistics,
http://www.powerbeltbullets.com/ballistic.html
when you know that 100g and 150g is too hard for them? My brother mailed back a fragmented PB that he found on the ground with a large buck hit at 30 yards (not recovered)and about 10 packages of the things last year, and I have read on the web of several people complaining to the company in the same manner, so they are aware of "pushing them too hard".
I believe you are telling people how to use them properly by slowing the PB down, I believe I am also telling people how to usePB properly if the want to go away from the PB to another bullet.
Chap Gleason