Originally Posted by
sabotloader
Ron,
The powder charge of 80g is a way plenty for this boolit.
You are correct especially with BH. Your 80 grain load is a full hunting load with that bullet or actually most any bullet over 350 grains. Properties of 'progressive burning' BH approach maximum efficiency of the bullet.
IMO using 80 grains of BH on that bullet would be comparable with using 120 grains of BH on the other bullets you have been testing - sort of screws the testing process as far as comparisons.
When you consider the load on that bullet, it really didn't penetrate that well. When shooting a 500grn bullet and 80grns of bh it's really a stout load. Probably more so then me shooting 140grns with a 200grn bullet. You definitely can't compare to the other bullets tested but a lot of bullets penetrated further anyway. I seen several hogs shot with those big heavy conicals with very poor results. I think I see why now, they just didnt penetrate enough.
But I do think that bullet would blow any Deer over for sure.