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Old 04-25-2011 | 09:44 AM
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ronlaughlin
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Default Harvester 260g PT Gold

A while ago, the supermarket quit carrying the juice jugs i had been using to compare bullets. At that time i had tested, i think, 9 different bullets. I wanted to do more comparison tests, but was unable to purchase the jugs. Then one day last month wife informed me that them juice jugs were available again, and she brought several home. This was good news to me because i like being able to compare bullets using the same load, same distance, and same media. I like it when one can collect numbers during testing. These numbers tend to render opinions moot.

This morning i was able to test the 260g PT bullet in the same exact jugs, using the same exact load, at the same exact distance, as was used to test most of the other bullets. Six juice jugs. 105g BH209. 14 yard.

















Them are stills taken from this video.



Here are some pictures of the scene afterward.











It appeared the bullet ended up at the bottom of the 5th jug shown here:








But it turned out that the bullet was no longer one bullet. Also, one can see part of the copper coating has peeled away from the base of the bullet. It appears the bullet split up in the third jug and two smaller pieces stayed in the fourth jug, while the larger piece went on to the fifth jug, and stayed there even though there was an in and an out hole in the fifth jug.







The largest piece, or perhaps it should be called the remaining bullet weighs 144g, and the total weight of the 3 bullet pieces is 180.5g.



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