Berger vs Phone book (read rednek boolit test)

[Limbic]

7mm Remmy Mag with 180gr Berger and MV of 2800 gun)

It plowed throught 5 2/3 semi moist phone books at 100yrds.

80.7gr of retained weight. Mostly jacket.

Pretty much what I was hoping to find.

Funny it stopped pretty much on the alcoholic page. Since I'm pretty much an addict I guess this was not surprising. Shooting addict that is.

 

[trebark]

Cool test. Thanks for sharing. Looks like the bullet performed just the way Berger says they will.

I understand your addiction completely. The only way to reduce the frequency and intensity of the withdrawal pains is to shoot more!

I would advise you to repeat this test at longer range to determine bullet performance at various velocities.

 

[eddybo]

That is cool. How many total inches of penetration did you get? What did the hole through the other 5 phone books look like?

 

[Limbic]

The bullet went throught 5 2/3 phone books. Semi moist books at that. I guess that is about three inches per book so roughly 14-15 inches.


Here is a pic of the back of the 5th phone book. I'm sure you recognize the guy Bo. I didn't mean to shoot him in the head

 

[Nomosendero]

An Attorney ar least

 

[Chuck Boyer]

Hey Limbic, I have some 180 Bergers that I tried in my STW. Can't get them to shoot. You want to buy them or trade. I am in Flora MS. Anyone done the phone book test with a 210 30 cal Berger? I do some deer depredation shooting and man do they do a number on a doe deer in a 300 Winnie.

 

[learning]

You missed! I thought you shot attorneys between the eyes.

 

[eddybo]

Missed.....looks like a complete lobatamy to me

16 inches in wet phone book translates into ????? in actual muscle and flesh? I have shot completely through a whitetail basicly from corner to corner using a berger bullet. I would say quite a bit more than 16 inches of penetration in flesh and bone and that was with a 168. Made a complete mess of everything but surprisingly little meat damage. I would guess that the 180s would penetrate better. I am trying to decide on my backup rifle for an elk hunt this year and cannot decide between a 7mm/338Lapua and 30/338Lapua improved but am leaning toward the 7mm since seeing this. Thanks for sharing.

You missed! I thought you shot attorneys between the eyes.

 

[DoubleGobble00]

Awesome test.. Thanks for posting it. I have been wanting to do that myself.

DoubleG

 

[Limbic]

I'm working on a load for 180's. If I can get them to shoot I'll buy yours for sure. I'd like to try them on a depreditation shoot. Hint hint.

 

[Chuck Boyer]

We'll work something out. Needs to be prettty quick. The beans are getting tall and you won't be able to see the deer.

 

[Tumbleweed]

Hey Limbic, I have some 180 Bergers that I tried in my STW. Can't get them to shoot. You want to buy them or trade. I am in Flora MS. Anyone done the phone book test with a 210 30 cal Berger? I do some deer depredation shooting and man do they do a number on a doe deer in a 300 Winnie.

I have not done a phone book test with the 210's, however I have shot into a 15 gallon plastic barrel completely full of water. I placed the barrel at 975 meters, or 1,066 yards and shot a nice 3 shot group clean through it before the water drained out! I was a bit suprised, as I was expecting to be retreiving bullet remnants from inside the barrel. A 14" solid column of water? I got a new barrel, layed it down and shot into the end of it so I was able to retreive my bullet that time. It is out of a 300 Wby running at 2,960fps. Impact velocity at that distance is about 1610fps at sea level, hope this helps.

 

[Limbic]

Chuck I got some pretty good groups with Retumbo. MV of about 2920. How many pills do you have? Where do you usually shoot? Shoot me a pm.

 

[X3MHunter]

I tried that with my 6.5-284 with 140 Berger VLD at 300 yards and it went through 2 phone books, did not recover the bullet. Pretty good performance at 300 yds. though.

-X3M