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The Lord Flashheart wrote:

Laurie wrote:
My thoughts too on fragmentation. After all the most notorious ricochet producers are the various low velocity .22 rimfires with their combination of a soft lead bullets and subsonic MVs. (I suspect that larger calibre 19th century lead bullet rounds such as the rook rifle numbers had similar characteristics, although I've never seen it said anywhere.) The conventional field shooting answer to ricochet safety concerns is to switch to a high velocity smallbore centrefire round that is more likely to break up.

The bit in bold was what set me down this path in the first place, I thought I'd spend a bit of time and money to do some experimentation to find out. :)

I am going to try, now that I am nose first sizing, a few different alloys from pure lead to solid linotype and shoot a few types of test medium ( milk jugs full of water, wet newspaper, etc) to test the bullets before trying them in the field, be interesting to see the results as the write-ups on this bullet are a bit thin on the ground for what I want.

I do use a high velocity centrefire for this sort of work at the moment ( 55 gr BT at around 4000fps with H4895 in my 243) but want a quieter option for where the noise would be a bad idea.

Mine is a specific usuage though, I wouldn't suggest this for general use. :)

kennyc wrote:

The Lord Flashheart wrote:

Laurie wrote:
My thoughts too on fragmentation. After all the most notorious ricochet producers are the various low velocity .22 rimfires with their combination of a soft lead bullets and subsonic MVs. (I suspect that larger calibre 19th century lead bullet rounds such as the rook rifle numbers had similar characteristics, although I've never seen it said anywhere.) The conventional field shooting answer to ricochet safety concerns is to switch to a high velocity smallbore centrefire round that is more likely to break up.

The bit in bold was what set me down this path in the first place, I thought I'd spend a bit of time and money to do some experimentation to find out. :)

I am going to try, now that I am nose first sizing, a few different alloys from pure lead to solid linotype and shoot a few types of test medium ( milk jugs full of water, wet newspaper, etc) to test the bullets before trying them in the field, be interesting to see the results as the write-ups on this bullet are a bit thin on the ground for what I want.

I do use a high velocity centrefire for this sort of work at the moment ( 55 gr BT at around 4000fps with H4895 in my 243) but want a quieter option for where the noise would be a bad idea.

Mine is a specific usuage though, I wouldn't suggest this for general use. :)

penetration doesn't appear to be an issue with that load