50g Hornady SP wet newspaper
I've used this as a cheap general purpose bullet in the 222 Rem since I was a teenager. Recently I've shot a hundred or so out of my new RAR 223 Rem Compact and wondered how they'd fare in the wet newspaper...
So with 15 inches of wet newsprint I fired two of these little Hornadys in at a MV of 3100fps which is modest I admit, but indicative of impact ranges commonly experienced when hunting pigs and goats in some of the places I hunt.
I expected these bullets to fly apart. They didn't.
Total penetration was 170mm for both bullets. Modest compared to the 280-300mm I got with the 75g Hdy BTHP recently, but not awful.
Retained weight was a surprising 25 and 30 grains, or 55% average. Expanded diameter was 0.48 and 0.47 inches.
These are the two recovered bullets. Not bad I thought for a supposed varmint bullet.
All in all I thought they behaved a lot more like a big game bullet than a typical varmint bullet. They certainly hold together better than the Vmax and Zmax bullets sold by Hornady.
FYI anyway.
I've used this as a cheap general purpose bullet in the 222 Rem since I was a teenager. Recently I've shot a hundred or so out of my new RAR 223 Rem Compact and wondered how they'd fare in the wet newspaper...
So with 15 inches of wet newsprint I fired two of these little Hornadys in at a MV of 3100fps which is modest I admit, but indicative of impact ranges commonly experienced when hunting pigs and goats in some of the places I hunt.
I expected these bullets to fly apart. They didn't.
Total penetration was 170mm for both bullets. Modest compared to the 280-300mm I got with the 75g Hdy BTHP recently, but not awful.
Retained weight was a surprising 25 and 30 grains, or 55% average. Expanded diameter was 0.48 and 0.47 inches.
These are the two recovered bullets. Not bad I thought for a supposed varmint bullet.
All in all I thought they behaved a lot more like a big game bullet than a typical varmint bullet. They certainly hold together better than the Vmax and Zmax bullets sold by Hornady.
FYI anyway.
Bad things happen to mule deer when they come down out of the mountains in the winter - to their natural wintering grounds - which is of course right where we built a city... 
