Well, we had alot of water jugs on tap in order to do some bullet testing. So I will go in order of shots. First up was Brians 45-70 with the 500gr DGX at 1150 or so. We tried to get straight penetration but our set up was a little skewed. We kept getting 6-7 jugs and the bullet was slipping out. Here are the attempts at capturing these slugs.
First attempt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oml2iZGIHLk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjhlIIB7Bp8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz2klPiTRW4
Then, moving on we moved to the 30-30 Win with the 170gr Sierra PH. My son shot this one into jugs and did a great job and had a blast. The recovered bullet is just about perfect. Very good performance I would say by any bullet maker!
Here is the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_MVH1MCQjo
Then we moved onto the 35 Rem with the 200gr CLRN... Very impressive bullet at that speed. Probably the prettiest mushroom I have ever seen in person.
Here is some video of the bullet recovery
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41VhilHoxn8
Then we moved onto the 45-70 as loaded by Hornady. The speed is chronoed at 1850FPS and shot a decent group like this. They are pretty good shooting loads. Good handloads beat them out, but I think there is alot of hype about this bullet exploding and such. Can't really say I would believe that. Maybe if pushed faster than 2000, but not below.
Here is the video from the bullet test.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6yI0027UYk
This was the results of pushing that bullet to 2200FPS.. Not as good, but it would still be very hard to stop one of them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz2klPiTRW4
Hope you guys enjoyed the videos. Again, it just shows that until you actually test bullets yourself against "something", you really cannot judge them from internet findings. Too much baloney floating around about bullets and bad reps can be made pretty quick from just hearsay. That FTX is a prime example. I thought it was going to be soft and not very tough. At 2000 or below, it would take some BIG animal to slow them down. Scotty
First attempt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oml2iZGIHLk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjhlIIB7Bp8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz2klPiTRW4
Then, moving on we moved to the 30-30 Win with the 170gr Sierra PH. My son shot this one into jugs and did a great job and had a blast. The recovered bullet is just about perfect. Very good performance I would say by any bullet maker!
Here is the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_MVH1MCQjo
Then we moved onto the 35 Rem with the 200gr CLRN... Very impressive bullet at that speed. Probably the prettiest mushroom I have ever seen in person.
Here is some video of the bullet recovery
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41VhilHoxn8
Then we moved onto the 45-70 as loaded by Hornady. The speed is chronoed at 1850FPS and shot a decent group like this. They are pretty good shooting loads. Good handloads beat them out, but I think there is alot of hype about this bullet exploding and such. Can't really say I would believe that. Maybe if pushed faster than 2000, but not below.
Here is the video from the bullet test.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6yI0027UYk
This was the results of pushing that bullet to 2200FPS.. Not as good, but it would still be very hard to stop one of them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz2klPiTRW4
Hope you guys enjoyed the videos. Again, it just shows that until you actually test bullets yourself against "something", you really cannot judge them from internet findings. Too much baloney floating around about bullets and bad reps can be made pretty quick from just hearsay. That FTX is a prime example. I thought it was going to be soft and not very tough. At 2000 or below, it would take some BIG animal to slow them down. Scotty