I like the test. Nicely done.
Since I am our hardest (legitimate) critic, I am going to pick apart the bullet performance a bit. I want to say that I am about to be very nit picky and I am in no way saying that that bullet did not perform well. I am going to say that we have seen a bit better performance from some other batches of raw material. That caught bullet shows just a tad more brittleness than we would like to see in a perfect world. Our goal that we are always striving for would have that retained shank with a bit flatter front that doesn't show where the petals came off. Flat and cylindrical without the rough edges. That is what we want to see. This bullet came very close to the perfect. We just did a low vel test with the newer current batch of copper and it was just a bit better than what you see in this test. As with any manufacturing the only part that we don not have full control over is the raw material. We do have our supplier catering to our needs for the make up of our alloy to a much tighter window than what is considered good enough to be considered proper makeup for the alloy. In fact they hold the tolerance so tight that there is no way to nail down what is diff from one batch to the next. If we did not have the effort from our supplier, there would be times that we would get a batch of copper that would not have deformed at all in this test. We found this out the hard way back when we 1st started and got the same alloy from a diff supplier and it would not work at anything remotely close to low vel. We still have a couple thousand pounds of that copper waiting to be used for target bullets.
Thanks again for posting your test.