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<blockquote data-quote="Mach 1" data-source="post: 1642307" data-attributes="member: 104202"><p>I don't know what the core is made of but I've got a couple thousand pulled ap 30-06 bullets. If you take the copper jacket off the penetrator core you will see that the core is lathe turned and if I remember right some where around 780 on the Rockwell hardness scale while my ar500 and ar550 hardens target plates are around 550 on the Rockwell scale. A year or so ago I loaded up a couple bullets with varget in a 308 win. I shot a 3/8 piece of ar500 steel a hardened bag of quickcrete and a tree stump. It Swiss cheesed the ar500 steel split the quickcrete and lodged in the stump. I dug it out of the stump and the point of the penetrator could still have been used as a center punch. The core make crack and break but it will not bend or dent. I would not advise shooting old ap bullets out of a good barrel as if the core ever came into contact with the lands of your rifling for any reason you'd probably ruin the barrel quickly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mach 1, post: 1642307, member: 104202"] I don’t know what the core is made of but I’ve got a couple thousand pulled ap 30-06 bullets. If you take the copper jacket off the penetrator core you will see that the core is lathe turned and if I remember right some where around 780 on the Rockwell hardness scale while my ar500 and ar550 hardens target plates are around 550 on the Rockwell scale. A year or so ago I loaded up a couple bullets with varget in a 308 win. I shot a 3/8 piece of ar500 steel a hardened bag of quickcrete and a tree stump. It Swiss cheesed the ar500 steel split the quickcrete and lodged in the stump. I dug it out of the stump and the point of the penetrator could still have been used as a center punch. The core make crack and break but it will not bend or dent. I would not advise shooting old ap bullets out of a good barrel as if the core ever came into contact with the lands of your rifling for any reason you’d probably ruin the barrel quickly. [/QUOTE]
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