Question for Slip-Fit Conical Shooters
 

When you shoot a slip fit conical, does the recovered bullet show that the bullet does in fact obturate to fill the grooves of the rifling?

RE: Question for Slip-Fit Conical Shooters
 

Never recovered a slip fit that was in good enough form to show any signs of rifling:D

RE: Question for Slip-Fit Conical Shooters
 

Yes you will often find the bottom flattened out and rifling marks on them.

RE: Question for Slip-Fit Conical Shooters
 

?? As in the bottom section (one tenth?, one quarter?, one third?) expands to take the rifling, but the major portion of the bullet does not?

RE: Question for Slip-Fit Conical Shooters
 

more of deformed on the bottom and then the top where they hit are really flattened. Of course most of my conicals hit steel traps so maybe I am not a good judge of how they react. Anything will flatten in that steel trap.

RE: Question for Slip-Fit Conical Shooters
 

Well, would you please go out and shoot one straight up in the air, and catch it in a bucket of water when it comes down. I really would like tosee what an undamaged one looks like? :D

RE: Question for Slip-Fit Conical Shooters
 

I just checked the maxiball that i shot out of the omega into the sand and i found some very swallow rifling. the maxiball is close to a slip fit in the omegas 502 bore.

RE: Question for Slip-Fit Conical Shooters
 

Semisane

The few that I have recovered do definitely show the lands and grooves on the shank of the bullet. The bullet is obturating to the bore.

I thought I had one here in the collection but I can not find ot to get a picture...

UC might have some pictures...

RE: Question for Slip-Fit Conical Shooters
 

Mike, you may have to give UC a lesson in posting pictures!!! :D

RE: Question for Slip-Fit Conical Shooters
 

Cdad

You kidden!!! UC is a genius at that stuff...