Great post WV Hunter. Like most of the guys here I've seen my fair share of school science fair projects. The effort you son put into conducting and documenting that experiment is way above most anything I've seen. If the HNI forum guys could be on the judging panel he would get the gold for sure.

WV Hunter,

Very nice test. It's nice to see that your sons school let him do a gun related project.

Here is a .400 200gr SST which left the muzzle around 2500fps. I recovered it on the offside shoulder on a Maryland whitetail shot at around 130yds. It either weighed 140 or 160gr recovered.



Might want to tell the teacher to look here for positive feedback. :D

That was also my thinking too. Those plus the Lehighs would provide deep penetration. I was impressed that my cast 320 gr REALs performed so well. I might have to work up an accurate hunting load for them in one of my .50s.

I agree that they should provide great penetration...and for what you described, may do well. However, now that I understand what sabotloader posted about the Lehighs, imo that seems like it would be a better option than the Sierra's for large thick skinned game.

On 'regular' game, I personally would not choose the Sierra's...I'd rather have a bullet with a little more expansion.

Looks like good performance for sure. Just as with the Knight bullet I recovered...yours did well in real world performance.

I was totally impressed with those REALs...they did great. I would certainly work a load up...they should be a great hunting round. In all, the all lead bullets performed very well, and the big lead was outstanding. Thanks again for sending them to test :happy0001:

Thanks for the kind words Semi. He enjoyed the project, and learned alot too. I guess we'll find out how he does on Friday :)

Great report! Very interesting, and I can see a lot of work went into it. It must have been a lot of fun to do as well. Tests like this are a good way to have some sort of "baseline" for comparing different bullets. Bullet performance on live game however, may vary....

I was also impressed by the performance of the big lead bullets. I think with any of those options you will have no trouble with any sort of game in the lower 48....

Great report WV! I'm happy to see how the Speer .44cal/240gr bullets performed. Dollar for performance value can't be beat.

Not too surprised at the .50cal/250gr Speer. That crazy deep hollow point has always concerned me a bit. You could do shots out of it.

Yeah, the 240 deep curls were amazing. The pics don't do it justice... I swear they are almost completely inside out. And all that without losing hardly any weight. Very impressive.

Thanks again for sending some to test, appreciate it! :happy0001: