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Post by ronlaughlin on Mar 24, 2014 20:36:40 GMT -5
There are a pile of these bullet around here. When ammo for the 45acp pistol got scarce, i accrued plenty of components so we could keep shooting. Well..one thing led to another, and i started wondering about using these bullet in my muzzle loaders, and whether they could be used for an inexpensive hunting bullet. They are a hard cast bullet intended for practice. The past few weeks, i wondered if one could modify these bullet to be a hollow point. After acquiring the tooling necessary, i proceeded. This morning seemed to be a good day to try these 'hollow points'. First, the capture of the original unmodified bullet. Distance from rifle to jugs was 35 yard. The hard cast bullet penetrated through 4 water filled milk jugs, and buried deep into a stack of phone books. Using the same 'trap' the 'hollow point' bullet was tried. It went through 3 milk jugs, and dented the fourth; it was found on the ground lying between the third and fourth jug. Then the hollow point bullet was given 6 chance at 100 yard. Load was 90g Blackhorn powder, modified 45acp practice bullet, mmp short black sabot, Federal 215 primer. Video of 230g bulletVideo of 230g modified bullet
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Post by wilmsmeyer on Mar 25, 2014 4:50:57 GMT -5
Great post and interesting idea. Looks like the accuracy of the modified bullet of a little sub par. Did you do any grouping with original bullets? I would say a non expanding slug at .45 cal would be as deadly of a hole as a .243 bullet that expanded to twice it diameter. You could surely break bones with that FMJ.
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Post by ronlaughlin on Mar 25, 2014 8:18:07 GMT -5
Yes, i have tried shooting the unaltered bullets. They didn't group any better. It seems these bullets are too loose in the rifle being used. It may be i will try again using a rifle with a tighter barrel. It may be it isn't worth spending any more time with these bullets.
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