Originally Posted by
zakjak711
I have been shootin 110 gr loose 777/mmp shortie/250 gr XTP for the last 6 years.
Taken about 8 deer--ALL were pass thru's with the farthest trailing job of 25 yds.
Can't argue with it.
I do want to try the Speer bullets though--they're supposed to be a tougher bullet than XTP's.
Zach
Zach, this is a bi-sected Gold Dot/Deep Curl you can see the piece of bi-sected copper cup (the Gold dot) just below the hollow point. This little peice of copper acts a buffer for the bullet and contols the expansion to this point. This little dot will become more apparent later.
Next the copper is bonded to the lead actually heat applied to the lead so that it can not separate from the lead.
This is a factory picture of the ideal expansion of the bullet.
Never seen really this good although some folks have offered up really close likenesses of it. You can see the Gold Dot and how expansion was controlled around it.
Now in real life... I tried to destroy (strip) these shooting them a a water saturated clay water bar. Far more than you would ask of a hunting bullet in real life. These were all shot with the HPH-24 sabot and 100 grains of T7-2f @ 100 yards. They did pretty darn good.
And again you can find the dot and also see that there is still bullet shank remaining and a good desl of the total weight of the bullet.
Here is the same test ran with XTP's
