Cast HP expansion results 45 Colt

[Ike Clanton]

For anyone interested I attached a picture of a 255 Grain cast HP made by GT bullets. My load chrono’s at 1000fps from my 5.5 in blackhawk. I didn’t have ballistics gel so I used water. Obviously this is not an ideal test media but it worked. Expansion was approximately 7/8 of an inch.

 

[BJung]

Thanks for sharing

 

[USSR]

Ike,

FWIW, a better every day expansion media is water-soaked newsprint. Not as hard as just water, plus you get to see and measure penetration.

Don

 

[Ike Clanton]

I agree. I plan on buying some ballistics gel soon and will try to test multiple hand loads. May even plug a deer with one this fall for some real life testing.

 

[USSR]

I have yet to recover one of my 265gr HP's from a deer - clean thru and thru.

Don

 

[GeauxTide]

Don't worry about expansion with the 45 Colt. A 280gr SWC at 1050 will exit any deer or hog, from any angle, leaving a large exit. My son popped a 150# Sow in the eye and the exit was a fist sized hole in the ham!

 

[TruthTellers]

Thanks to the OP for posting this, I'd never heard of GT bullets before and their prices and variety of calibers is awesome. I don't see case lead hollow points for .32, but they've got some and they've also got a 325gr hollow point that's gas checked for .45 caliber. Been looking for something I can load to use in my Redhawk and that is half the price of 300gr XTP's.