Cast Hollow Points...

[TCTex]

Here is a coupe of 44's I have been playing around with.

I shot half a dozen bullets into a big old wet honey locus log at two different sections. Not to shabby IMHO...



Left-air cooled WW at 900 fps


Right-air cooled WW at 1200fps

[cmillard]

you must be using fairly hard lead?

[jsh]

WOW
Kinda my thoughts to on alloy. Fairly hard and tough as it didn't fragment any.
What we call honey locust around here ranks right there with hedge/Osage orange. Pretty hard when green harder than wood pecker lips when dry.
I don't play with any hollow points in cast so am taking SWAG at this. I am not sur you would get much if any expansion on flesh with that alloy?
Jeff

[TCTex]

Thanks for the comments!

Just air cooled Wheel Weights… The Water Dropped bullets didn't expand at all. At 1200fps, they looked more like the 900fps air cooled pictured above.
Ps, Elmer Kieth use to use that Lyman HP mold with 93 lead and 7 tin if my memory serves me correctly. Not to far from the WW's I am using.

That Lucas tree was a fallen tree that was deteriorating. I could break a lot of it with my bear hands. I will be doing some water testing later, but this was a good media source.

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I didn’t make the bullets in the article, but I do cast these bullets…

Here is that 475 bullet in action...

www.handgunhunt.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/132748/page/2#Post132748

Glen Swaggart had sent me some cast hollow point .475 bullets. They few I weighed averaged at 388/89 grains. The hollow point is huge....Holland Tunnel huge....Glen asked that I load them over 14.0 grains of HS-6 with a standard primer and when I go pig hunting use them from my Gallagher five shot. I was able to place a hollow point in the left shoulder of a black swamper at 40yds. At the shot he nose-dived and rolled and I put another one at the neck. While skinning, one of the HP`s dropped to the ground after stopping on the far shoulder. A picture is shown where the bullet stopped.
Glen and Dick Thompson worked together in making this bullet. They raised and lower different metals until they felt they reached the correct amounts for their hollow point to work. The recovered bullet weighed 383.3 grains losing around 5.0grains and at its widest point expanded to 0.930". I ran the only two loaded hollow points I had over my chronograph and they averaged 1088fps which is a little under the 1100fps that Glenn wanted. I would say they have a success......
PS- I must note that Dick Thompson employed his 70/30 metal mixture when casting this bullet and that the correct weight is 388.0 grains lubed showing the recovered bullet lost less then 5.0grs. When looking sideways at the expanded bullet I can`t help but think of a recovered Partition...

[TCTex]

More thought. My Chrony indicates that my bullet is going somewhere around 1225+ when it leaves the barrel. That still yields somewhere around 1075+ at 100 yards. The 900 fps bullet was just one of the tests I wanted to do FWIW. I am still going to do some more testing, but this isn't a bad start...

[bushog]

Here is a thread describing again how that .475 bullet was alloyed as well as Dick's formulas for different velocities.

IMHO this info is golden.

Thanks Dick!

singleactions.proboards.com/thread/8721?page=1

[cmillard]

interesting. I would like to see how these bullets perform with softer lead

[jwp475]

Jul 7, 2013 0:23:17 GMT -5 jsh said:

WOW
Kinda my thoughts to on alloy. Fairly hard and tough as it didn't fragment any.
What we call honey locust around here ranks right there with hedge/Osage orange. Pretty hard when green harder than wood pecker lips when dry.
I don't play with any hollow points in cast so am taking SWAG at this. I am not sur you would get much if any expansion on flesh with that alloy?
Jeff

Air cooled wheel weights ail about be about 12to 14 brinel or there about and will expand at velocities of 1200 FPS or more. Water quenched wheel weights will go 22 to 24 and hold there form well for maximum penetration

[boxhead]

Nice to see. Dick sent me a few hundred of those 475 slugs. Have yet to try them though. Was hoping for an elk hunt next year when I should draw but I won't be hunting the US for a few years, at least.