Hollow point or solid

[leftysixgun]

Aug 9, 2023 22:50:19 GMT -5 northerngos said:

Jul 26, 2023 18:47:31 GMT -5 leftysixgun said:

Bryan, I think you know what primary 45 bullets I shoot. This is just me, I dont get hung up on how hard or soft an alloy is. I think we are dong well to just find lead thses days. For deer and hogs around us, HPs are fine cast from straight wheel weights. The handguns and rifles that shoot the same bullet, I dont change anything in the alloy, thats my 45 colt Marlin and my 475 Linebaugh in Ruger No.1

At 12-1400fps are you water quenching pure wheel weight hollow points or air cooling?  

I do not water quench my bullets.

[bigbore5]

If you water quench pure clip-on wheel weights they come out too hard to expand. Often the thin nose of the hollow point will fracture causing irregular bullet path in heavy game. I use 70/30 coww/soww air cooled or 50/50 water dropped in the 1300fps range with good results.

[bradshaw]

Hollow point or “solid”?

POWER COAT changes the dynamic limitations of a cast & lube bullet. The heat----400-degrees Fahrenheit----which melts the plastic powder into a liquid coating softens an alloyed lead bullet, while simultaneously providing a barrier between bullet & bore to prevent leading. This causes a SWC or ogive’d flat nose to “head over” or mushroom slightly (degree of expansion controlled primarily by velocity).

Thus, a powder coat SWC treads into hollow point territory for convecting punch. At the same time, expansion of the powder coat cast seems to retard expansion in a manner many hollow points lack.

It doesn’t require a lot of upset to amplify punch. Of course, dramatic upset reduces penetration; immediate upset reduces penetration immediately. POWDER COAT has broadened the performance of cast bullets.
David Bradshaw

[bigbore5]

I have posted pics before showing the large exit wound on a cull buck I shot with a 525gr lbt WFN from the 500 Linebaugh.

The bullet was around 1200 fps at impact. Exit wound was over 3" in diameter. Lungs were utterly destroyed. It was 50/50 alloy air cooled. DRT.

I wasn't deer hunting that day, thus the heavy artillery.

I often carry a 357 mag 4" service six along with the 45 or 500 when working the dogs on bear. My loads for the 357 are either the MP version of the Keith SWC or the 180gr he offers, both with the large hp pins in and cast from 50/50, water dropped.
Velocity is around 1200fps for both.

The 357 comes into play when the dogs are mixed in with the bear and any over penetration can hit the dogs. I try to break a shoulder to keep the bullet from exiting, but broadsides they often will if the shoulders are not hit despite expansion. Shots are often VERY close.

[lockhart]

When I hunted deer, my favorite load in my Ruger old model Super Blackhawk was
20 grains of 2400 behind Keith's 250 grain semi-wadcutter! Dead deer right then!