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Imo water tests are WAY too hard of a medium for expansion testing. It’s fun though to catch bullets. I use to water expansion test different alloys with my own cast bullets. The best mushroom I had was with super hard 15.4 bh alloy. I casted it in a Lyman devastator. I tried it at 1850 fps...

For me, it’s pretty common for the ballistic tips to separate from their lead cores. I shot a couple of pronghorn back around 2000. Loaded up some 125 grain ballistic tips out of my 300 RUM at almost 4000 ft./s. Shot one a couple hundred yards that I literally could see daylight through where I...

You can see the bullet broke through several ribs on the way in. I was in an elevated stand when I took the shot as the deer was walking away from me. It took out quite a few ribs in its path before resting on the offside shoulder. I’m sure a broadside shot encountering only one rib on the way...

I decide to try a 90 grain ballistic tip on a deer. Shot quite a bobcat and many coyote with them and then switched to 70 grain versions. I had some doe tags to try out some of the old 90 grainers I had loaded up and stored away for decades. I used a Remington 600 with a 18.5" barrel. The load...

I’ve been a member here for probably 20 years and got locked out so I logged back in under a different email address and user name.

I shot a deer with one at about 18 yards a few seasons ago. It hit the ground and never moved. I recovered the bullet and have pictures of it. I’ll have to post it later. Blew through the shoulder blade on the opposite side and rested just under the hide. The lead separated from the core and was...