Long long ago i believe jsteurrys mailed me these bullet to test shoot through juice jug filled with water. At the time i had a steady supply of them jug, and tested several different bullet using a standard of 6 juice jug. The supply of jug dried up. It seems years ago i received them bullet, but never tested them. Today substituting four 1 gallon milk jug, and a 5# powder jug, the bullet was given the test.


Test Video


The set before the shot.







1/3 second after impact.






After things settled. Note the water leaking out of the entrance and exit holes though the powder jug.





It was quite difficult for me to find the bullet; it bounced forward off the phone book stack. X marks where the bullet was found.





The bullet veered left through the jugs, and almost missed the powder jug, and the phone book stack. The holes in the powder jug were on the very edge, as was the impact of the bullet on the stack.






This in spite of the fact the exit hole from the first jug was virtually dead center.









When received these bullet came with black crush rib sabot, so that is what was used today in the 50 Knight Disc Extreme. The fit was about perfect even though these are .458 bullet. Range was about 50'. The powder charge was the same as most of the other bullet tests--105g BH209. The unfired bullet was almost exactly 300g. The spent bullet was about 300.5g.

Wow that is controlled expansion right there. Are you suggesting that after hitting the water jugs dead center the bullet began to veer off course of a straight though, resulting in it nicking the powder jug and phone book? That would make sense, if the water jugs did open that bullet to that degree. It still spinning would have been like an outboard prop. No telling where it would end up. Excellent test and great pictures.

What you write makes sense to me. During the course of testing several different bullets, the Barnes have been the ones that veer off most of the time. One of them i never found. This one today, i looked and looked and looked for it; gave up on finding it, and was about to leave when i somehow saw it.

Cool test Ron. Maybe you could make a three sided backstop of phone books for those times the bullet squirts out the sides of the jugs.

That would work wouldn't it. What i think i will do is confine the shooting of Barnes bullet to paper and critter. They have already proven to me they work exactly as advertised. Each of the 3 tried in water jug, has retained it's weight, expanded to a beautiful flower, and destroyed the first jugs. This last one was rumored not to expand, and it didn't as much as the TEZ, nor the Socom did, but it sure worked. What a wonderful elk bullet it would be. The TSX may be a little less expensive too.