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bullet expansion test results
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<blockquote data-quote="yorke-1" data-source="post: 1286696" data-attributes="member: 11960"><p>My 6.5 Grendel took two deer this year with the 130 Accubond load and both were good clean kills. One blacktail was shot head on in the brisket at 45 yards and the bullet was recovered inside the right hip after penetrating 27.5". The expanded bullet looked exactly like the ones I recovered from the leather with almost identical weight retention. It's a great combo.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I had the same concern after testing bullets in newspaper. The leather I'm using is a soft, almost suede leather that's about 1/8" thick. It's what the glove shop calls apron leather and it's been treated so it's water repellent. I'm going to try some more tests where I have the leather mixed in with water to see if that changes anything.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The way I have it set up, I shoot into the leather without hitting any other material. I'll probably play around with different layers to try and get a better simulation for animal tissue. Right now, the leather is proving to provide the perfect medium to test expansion. Bullets recovered from the leather are a perfect match to bullets recovered from game animals. The big difference is that the bullets don't penetrate nearly as far into the dense leather. I actually like this more because it means I don't have to use a bullet trap that's 5 feet long! </p><p></p><p>Here's a picture of a piece of the leather I'm using. You can see a bigger piece on the floor in the back ground too. This should give you an idea how soft it is.</p><p><a href="http://s162.photobucket.com/user/collegekidandy/media/A707BC61-8111-4E2D-ADB4-8ED52CB46094.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t260/collegekidandy/A707BC61-8111-4E2D-ADB4-8ED52CB46094.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>I'll get to work trying to track down some of the other bullets. If anybody has a few that they can spare, it would save me from having to buy entire boxes of 15 different bullets. I'd only need maybe 5 of each bullet.</p><p></p><p>Andrew</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="yorke-1, post: 1286696, member: 11960"] My 6.5 Grendel took two deer this year with the 130 Accubond load and both were good clean kills. One blacktail was shot head on in the brisket at 45 yards and the bullet was recovered inside the right hip after penetrating 27.5". The expanded bullet looked exactly like the ones I recovered from the leather with almost identical weight retention. It's a great combo. I had the same concern after testing bullets in newspaper. The leather I'm using is a soft, almost suede leather that's about 1/8" thick. It's what the glove shop calls apron leather and it's been treated so it's water repellent. I'm going to try some more tests where I have the leather mixed in with water to see if that changes anything. The way I have it set up, I shoot into the leather without hitting any other material. I'll probably play around with different layers to try and get a better simulation for animal tissue. Right now, the leather is proving to provide the perfect medium to test expansion. Bullets recovered from the leather are a perfect match to bullets recovered from game animals. The big difference is that the bullets don't penetrate nearly as far into the dense leather. I actually like this more because it means I don't have to use a bullet trap that's 5 feet long! Here's a picture of a piece of the leather I'm using. You can see a bigger piece on the floor in the back ground too. This should give you an idea how soft it is. [URL=http://s162.photobucket.com/user/collegekidandy/media/A707BC61-8111-4E2D-ADB4-8ED52CB46094.jpg.html][IMG]http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t260/collegekidandy/A707BC61-8111-4E2D-ADB4-8ED52CB46094.jpg[/IMG][/URL] I'll get to work trying to track down some of the other bullets. If anybody has a few that they can spare, it would save me from having to buy entire boxes of 15 different bullets. I'd only need maybe 5 of each bullet. Andrew [/QUOTE]
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