The firing went fine, except for the Texas weather we imported! 93 humid degrees, I'm still trying to get re-hydrated.
Now if I could just get that #@)*^!!+ camera to download, I'd be able to show some fantastic expanded boolits! The bullet test tube worked really well. Surprised at the limited penetration. 5 inches with little or no wound cavity.
The round HP did best, .890 expansion, perfect round disc, expanded back PAST the lube groove.
Penta point expanded to .850, was lop-sided, very uneven expansion, and deviated from going straight in. I had to dig it out of the expansion material,(wax).
There was no sign of any lead being shed by either boolit. In fact, they both weighed in the same average of the boolits I cast last night.
I got 2 test tubes, one is for defensive handgun, the other for non-magnum rifles. I used both today, that might scew the results, as the rifle tube has 4X the material and 2x the diameter. They can only be used once per day, the re-casting takes 24 hours to cool.
Accuracy was pretty good, considering I used my standard 200 grain load of 5.7 WW-231 that was already set-up in the dillon 650. Group size @ 25 yards was around 3 inches, which is about all these old eyes can do. Velocity was in the mid 900's. I shot the boolits at 5 paces from the test tubes.
If I get the consarned camera figured out, I'll post pics tomorrow.
After a knock-down-drag-out-fight with the camera, here's the pics!
Round HP left, penta right.
Same as above.
This is the round HP.
And then the penta point, it curved to one side, so I had to dig for it.
I will test more of these boolits as soon as I figure out how to re-cast the medium. It appears the boys at bullet-test-tube are t!ts up! Their email account returns emails, mailbox full, and their phone is disconnected. I did a search for cardboard tubes, there's a bunch of suppliers that I can order from.
