3-12 Farm Report - It Works
Mar 12, 2015 20:11:39 GMT -5
Post by sabotloader on Mar 12, 2015 20:11:39 GMT -5
Actually it works better than I thought it would! I think?
After gaining more personal interest in these new XP bullets especially this new .452x250 with the larger flutes and with some addition information gained on DOUG's board; I really wanted to run out and conduct another test.
It seemed to me that I had about 1 to 1 1/2 of dead time this afternoon that I might be able to run to the farm. I am retired and suppose to have all this spare time but it does not ever seem to work that way...
This morning I headed to my garage shop with the thought of mixing up a solution that I could pour into a gallon milk jug. I did not want to use straight water as I have done many times in the past - I really wanted something that was liquid but had a thicker consistency like you might find in the internal organs of an animal. So I mixed 4 quarts of very fine sawdust with 5 quarts of water. I kept mixing and diluting the mixture until I had the thickness of mix that I thought might be equal to the contents in the chest cavity organs. It ended up being think enough that I could stand a large wooden spoon up in the solution and it would just stand there on its own. In my mind I was thinking now if I put this solution in a gallon milk jug, the jug would act much like cell or organ wall. But of course the plastic milk jug was actually stronger than organ wall.
It was my thought I really wanted to see if a solid bullet passing and turning through the solution would create enough pressure to burst the milk jug. I have done this in the past with straight water using HPoint bullets - it would certainly rupture the jug but it never was or seamed real explosive.
I took my Mountianeer 50, which I have not shot for couple of years now, because Grouse convinced Knight to build the Ultra-Lite, and the Ultra-Lite has or often is the go-to rifle.
I set the jug of medium on a plastic bucket at 80 yards from the bench. I also setup 3 clay pigeons to shoot first to verify POI from the Mountaineer, which I am very glad I did because the impact point was very high. Got the scope adjusted and running out of time I decided to take the shot...
This is a composite group of pictures...
It was somewhat explosive... I did not get to see it happen next time I will as I am going to do the Ron thing and video it. It did far more than rupture the jug. There was enough downward force created by the bullet to cause the rupture of the bottom of the bucket that target was sitting on. There was enough force to move the target and bucket a distance. There was enough force and rotation to collect material in the flutes and spiral it out several feet from the target. With all of this 'explosiveness' I also know it would have all been contained inside the chest cavity - it certainly is not going to blow up a deer but it is certainly going to be destructive in the chest cavity. I felt the gallon jug laying on it's side would be near the width of the internals of a deer. And as Lehigh Dave suggested it probably only made a 1/2 of a rotation in that distance.
I have another scheme planned but do not know when I will get a chance to try it. Gotta WORK next week!
After gaining more personal interest in these new XP bullets especially this new .452x250 with the larger flutes and with some addition information gained on DOUG's board; I really wanted to run out and conduct another test.
It seemed to me that I had about 1 to 1 1/2 of dead time this afternoon that I might be able to run to the farm. I am retired and suppose to have all this spare time but it does not ever seem to work that way...
This morning I headed to my garage shop with the thought of mixing up a solution that I could pour into a gallon milk jug. I did not want to use straight water as I have done many times in the past - I really wanted something that was liquid but had a thicker consistency like you might find in the internal organs of an animal. So I mixed 4 quarts of very fine sawdust with 5 quarts of water. I kept mixing and diluting the mixture until I had the thickness of mix that I thought might be equal to the contents in the chest cavity organs. It ended up being think enough that I could stand a large wooden spoon up in the solution and it would just stand there on its own. In my mind I was thinking now if I put this solution in a gallon milk jug, the jug would act much like cell or organ wall. But of course the plastic milk jug was actually stronger than organ wall.
It was my thought I really wanted to see if a solid bullet passing and turning through the solution would create enough pressure to burst the milk jug. I have done this in the past with straight water using HPoint bullets - it would certainly rupture the jug but it never was or seamed real explosive.
I took my Mountianeer 50, which I have not shot for couple of years now, because Grouse convinced Knight to build the Ultra-Lite, and the Ultra-Lite has or often is the go-to rifle.
I set the jug of medium on a plastic bucket at 80 yards from the bench. I also setup 3 clay pigeons to shoot first to verify POI from the Mountaineer, which I am very glad I did because the impact point was very high. Got the scope adjusted and running out of time I decided to take the shot...
This is a composite group of pictures...
It was somewhat explosive... I did not get to see it happen next time I will as I am going to do the Ron thing and video it. It did far more than rupture the jug. There was enough downward force created by the bullet to cause the rupture of the bottom of the bucket that target was sitting on. There was enough force to move the target and bucket a distance. There was enough force and rotation to collect material in the flutes and spiral it out several feet from the target. With all of this 'explosiveness' I also know it would have all been contained inside the chest cavity - it certainly is not going to blow up a deer but it is certainly going to be destructive in the chest cavity. I felt the gallon jug laying on it's side would be near the width of the internals of a deer. And as Lehigh Dave suggested it probably only made a 1/2 of a rotation in that distance.
I have another scheme planned but do not know when I will get a chance to try it. Gotta WORK next week!
