Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
Articles
Latest reviews
Author list
Classifieds
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles and first posts only
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Forums
Rifles, Reloading, Optics, Equipment
Reloading
.375 Hornady bullets for Africa?
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="LoneTraveler" data-source="post: 2010880" data-attributes="member: 77249"><p>Some copper alloy metals will harden with age and cause problems too.</p><p></p><p>Have you recovered any bullets from an animal?</p><p>Sharp corners on lands of a barrels rifling can make for a problem with penetration on animals. Sharp corners on the lands can put stress lines down the jacket from Ogive to base, When the nose of a Jacket and Core bullet starts to mushroom and one of the pedal break lines hits a rifling stress line the bullet can open very rapid and destroy itself and loose its core. With severe damage but with little penetration. </p><p></p><p>When I worked in a taxidermy/tanning shop years ago. A hunter brought in a deer head for mounting and the hide for tanning. He bragged he had the best killing 30-06 he ever seen. When we was checking the hide over and went to clean a jello patch off the hide so salt would penetrate quick. There was a bullet that the rifling had put stress lines in. The bullet had opened in near perfect half, To the base of the jacket, And no sign of the lead core was to be found. </p><p>Years later in a hunting/gun magazine there was an article about a African White Hunter who had nearly been killed by a couple elephants in charge situations. They found that when a recovered solid nose bullet from the skull on an elephant, A sharp rifling corner had put a stress line in the side of the bullet, The bullet jacket had ruptured on the stress line, The bullet deformed and had went off point of aim and lost a lot of penetration in the skull. Lapping the sharp corners off the rifling cured the problem.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LoneTraveler, post: 2010880, member: 77249"] Some copper alloy metals will harden with age and cause problems too. Have you recovered any bullets from an animal? Sharp corners on lands of a barrels rifling can make for a problem with penetration on animals. Sharp corners on the lands can put stress lines down the jacket from Ogive to base, When the nose of a Jacket and Core bullet starts to mushroom and one of the pedal break lines hits a rifling stress line the bullet can open very rapid and destroy itself and loose its core. With severe damage but with little penetration. When I worked in a taxidermy/tanning shop years ago. A hunter brought in a deer head for mounting and the hide for tanning. He bragged he had the best killing 30-06 he ever seen. When we was checking the hide over and went to clean a jello patch off the hide so salt would penetrate quick. There was a bullet that the rifling had put stress lines in. The bullet had opened in near perfect half, To the base of the jacket, And no sign of the lead core was to be found. Years later in a hunting/gun magazine there was an article about a African White Hunter who had nearly been killed by a couple elephants in charge situations. They found that when a recovered solid nose bullet from the skull on an elephant, A sharp rifling corner had put a stress line in the side of the bullet, The bullet jacket had ruptured on the stress line, The bullet deformed and had went off point of aim and lost a lot of penetration in the skull. Lapping the sharp corners off the rifling cured the problem. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Rifles, Reloading, Optics, Equipment
Reloading
.375 Hornady bullets for Africa?
Top