Badlands Precision Bullets thread - From BC to terminal ballistics

[codyadams]

Pretty awesome update!

My cousin managed to connect with a nice bull using his .270 Sherman, sending the 140 Badlands SBDII @ 3240. The shot was 379 yards, with an impact velocity of about 2770 fps. Hit was behind the shoulder, double lung hit. The bull hunched up, stood there for about 10 seconds, then tipped over, one and done!! Will have more pics tomorrow hopefully of internals and entrance/exit, but got these for now!!

 

[nralifer]

Pretty awesome update!

My cousin managed to connect with a nice bull using his .270 Sherman, sending the 140 Badlands SBDII @ 3240. The shot was 379 yards, with an impact velocity of about 2770 fps. Hit was behind the shoulder, double lung hit. The bull hunched up, stood there for about 10 seconds, then tipped over, one and done!! Will have more pics tomorrow hopefully of internals and entrance/exit, but got these for now!!

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Awesome!, thanks for posting Cody

 

[nralifer]

Another buck down at the hands of the .277 140 SBDII.

This one was taken at 285 yards, impact velocity of about 2765 fps. High shoulder hit, you can kind of see the impact in the photo, just below spine. Buck tatered on impact, and rolled down the hill. 2" exit, lungs were jelly. Again, nothing surprising here, this .277 bullet in my opinion is extremely effective.
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Really nice buck. Congratulations

 

[codyadams]

Another Bull down at the hands of the 140 SBDII from the .270 Sherman!

This one was taken by my cousin at 700 yards. The report is it was hit behind the shoulder and exited mid ribs, slight quartering shot, and hit a little far back. The bull ran down the hill a ways, eventually getting behind some branches and stuff, stopped, and went down after a little over a minute. Got entrance and exit pics, and a pic of the head, and that's it for now. It's still being packed out.

Impact velocity approximately 2550 or so.

Entrance -

Exit, it appears that there was some petal separation creating a couple additional small exits out of the rib cage -

5x6 Bull -

Will update if I get more!

 

[nralifer]

Nice trophy! Quartering shots are very lethal with these bullets. Nice post

 

[FEENIX]

Here's one from LRO >>>https://www.longrangeonly.com/forum/threads/badlands-bulldozer-2-terminal-performance.12408/

 

[codyadams]

ANOTHER elk down with the .277 140 SBDII!!!

This one, my buddy used my cousin's .270 Sherman to take. It was close, sub 100 yards in the timber, on a raghorn 5x6. Impact velocity would have been around 3150 fps.

Solid broadside double lung hit, he said the bull took about 5 steps, stopped and realized something was wrong, then turned downhill and tumbled/ran another 10 steps as he fell to the ground. Bullet sized entrance, 50 cent piece sized exit, and good damage on the lungs!

From sub 100 to over 700, this bullet is turning into an elk killer! I can only imagine running this at 3500+ from a 27 nosler or similar.......

 

[tim_w]

From sub 100 to over 700, this bullet is turning into an elk killer! I can only imagine running this at 3500+ from a 27 nosler or similar.......

after load work you would have 500 elks worth of deathstick. That would last you a few seasons lol If you connected with a close one and impacted at 3k+ that would be devastating. Would love to see the damage that created along with a video of the actual hit.

 

[nralifer]

ANOTHER elk down with the .277 140 SBDII!!!

This one, my buddy used my cousin's .270 Sherman to take. It was close, sub 100 yards in the timber, on a raghorn 5x6. Impact velocity would have been around 3150 fps.

Solid broadside double lung hit, he said the bull took about 5 steps, stopped and realized something was wrong, then turned downhill and tumbled/ran another 10 steps as he fell to the ground. Bullet sized entrance, 50 cent piece sized exit, and good damage on the lungs!

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From sub 100 to over 700, this bullet is turning into an elk killer! I can only imagine running this at 3500+ from a 27 nosler or similar.......

This is an exellent post showing that at extreme impact velocities the bullet is able to still achieve full penetration. Lead core bullets could fail miserably at those extreme impact velocities and ruin a lot of meat with lead shard contamination.

 

[codyadams]

after load work you would have 500 elks worth of deathstick. That would last you a few seasons lol If you connected with a close one and impacted at 3k+ that would be devastating. Would love to see the damage that created along with a video of the actual hit.

What is crazy is that at the elevation we hunt, it would maintain 3000+ fps at impact out to about 500 yards! Even at 1000 yards, impact velocity would still be around 2500 fps. For a lighter recoiling magnum, it would do the trick ha ha.

 

[nralifer]

What is crazy is that at the elevation we hunt, it would maintain 3000+ fps at impact out to about 500 yards! Even at 1000 yards, impact velocity would still be around 2500 fps. For a lighter recoiling magnum, it would do the trick ha ha.

That is crazy, but not surprising when you consider the low drag/wt ratio of your bullet to that of any other heavy for caliber .277 cal bullet. You really see the beneficial effect of a high muzzle velocity on down range energy retention which greatly extends the effectiveness of an expanding bullet given the fact of low impact velocity at distance.

 

[akmtnhnt]

ANOTHER elk down with the .277 140 SBDII!!!

This one, my buddy used my cousin's .270 Sherman to take. It was close, sub 100 yards in the timber, on a raghorn 5x6. Impact velocity would have been around 3150 fps.

Solid broadside double lung hit, he said the bull took about 5 steps, stopped and realized something was wrong, then turned downhill and tumbled/ran another 10 steps as he fell to the ground. Bullet sized entrance, 50 cent piece sized exit, and good damage on the lungs!

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From sub 100 to over 700, this bullet is turning into an elk killer! I can only imagine running this at 3500+ from a 27 nosler or similar.......

I'm going to give that bullet a try in my new 27 cal build, but MV will be a little lower.

You're impact velocities are all very high. Running the data, I'll be at 2000fps by 675yds. Putting most hunting impacts in the 2700-2300 range, which I'm sure will work, but I'm most interested in seeing stuff at the 1800-2000 range.

I've never been far enough from an animal to get impacts that slow. Even shooting out of my short barrel 6.5CM with the 125, I'd need 525yd impacts, which I haven't seen with that rifle.

 

[codyadams]

I'm going to give that bullet a try in my new 27 cal build, but MV will be a little lower.

You're impact velocities are all very high. Running the data, I'll be at 2000fps by 675yds. Putting most hunting impacts in the 2700-2300 range, which I'm sure will work, but I'm most interested in seeing stuff at the 1800-2000 range.

I've never been far enough from an animal to get impacts that slow. Even shooting out of my short barrel 6.5CM with the 125, I'd need 525yd impacts, which I haven't seen with that rifle.

The 19" 7 Sherman we run starts out at 3030, I think the farthest with that was around 500 yards, which made it have an impact around 2500 fps or so. I live at 6,000 ft elevation and hunt higher than that usually, so that is a significant contributing factor for sure

 

[David_h]

Good report. I've got a bunch of those same 140 gr Badlands Precision bullets for my 6.8 Western 26" barrel but somehow I ended up working up my load with the 156 gr. Hammer Hunter. After reading I'm planning on going back to work up a load with the 140 gr. mono's. My plan is to start with Ramshot Magnum powder as it is the slowest that I have at this time, even though I've been looking for H1000. For my 156 gr. Hammer Hunter I used StaBall6.5 which was what I had, but I believe that I left 150-200 fps behind compared to slower burning powder because of the burn rate. What powder were you using? Maybe not applicable to me since your barrel is only 19" vs 26".