260 PT Gold's giving me a headache!
 

Thanks to my niece she passed a bug on to me and made me sicker than a dog for a day. Today though i felt better and wanted to take advantage of the chilly 80* windless day. I loaded up my nephews CVA Wolf with 110gr Blackhorn209, CCI 209 Magnum primers and took my shooting bag out to 100 yards.

This Wolf will need a tighter fitting sabot though as i expected. But i wasn't worried about the group, i had just filled up a 5 gallon bucket with damp sand earlier and so i wanted to recover a few bullets.

That didn't go as planned either!

I took my Two shots at 100 yards and was flabbergasted when no bullets were in the sand. I DID find one of them " pictured" on the ground aprox. 4 feet behind my sand bucket. The second bullet i found was mangled up under some sand stone rocks but even that held 212 grains out of 260grs.

Recovered bullet pictured weighs 224 grains and has a little bit of the polly tip still smeared into the lead.




To be honest, I don't know how much more testing i will do with these bullets as they have been giving me a complete head ache in trying to recover them. Im pretty impressed though with the recovered bullets from today, but still would like to do a wet news paper test.

Jon, they look pretty darn good to me, can you imagine trying to recover a 300 gr PT, with the energy it carries downrange lol. like PB's IMHO a 50yd test would be a lot better gauge. Ray

doh!! my 3rd shot was a 50 yard shot lol. i was unable to recover that bullet in the 5 gallon sand bucket.

Just so I have this straight, the bullet penetrated the 5 gallon bucket of sand??? If so, that is a very good sign of the bullets integrity.

I had complete pass throughs on 5 deer with PT golds, but all of them were shot behind the shoulder when the deer was broadside or very close to broadside.

Well put something behind it! geezz, you youngsters!:D

oh bite me!

I really am surprised how these things are just blowing through my sand buckets, even at 50 yards you'd think there would be a chance at catching them.

Time to double up on the 5 gallon buckets i guess.

That should work. Just remember - put one behind the other, not on top of the other. :biggrin:

Well i caught 2 more just by adding a 1" layer of wet news paper on the rear portion of the bucket!

I'll have to take pics later tomorrow and then i will post them.

The Wolf is all dialed in now!

Semi, another comment that caused me to spit out my coffee! STOPPPPPP!

I think it may have something to do with the bullet being harder than pure lead and the fact it's copper jacket is plated to the bullet. Ray