ronlaughlin

The hollow in the bullet starts at about 0.21", then tapers smaller. The bullet was shot with two different powder loads. A 50 grain Blackhorn load, and a 57 grain Blackhorn load. The bullet shot with 50g Blackhorn went through 5 jugs, and hit the sixth jug hard enough the bottom blew out, then the bullet bounced far enough away, a metal detector was required to find it. It didn't mushroom. The hollow point of the bullet evidently carried plywood until into the second jug where a small piece of plywood was found.

The bullet shot with the 57 grain load went through 4 jugs; bounced off the fifth jug without damaging it, and fell down on the ground, and has a mushroom. The fifth jug ended up laying down right there on the horse. The first jug was blowed up pretty good.


























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