WTB cast HP in 50 cal.

[bearskinner]

Sorry to get off the original subject, but this is performance I found with the bullets in question, so…….
I collect jugs all year from home and neighbors, to spend a couple days blowing things up, catching various bullets. Boxes full of cut up sheets of OSB, boxes of sticks, bags of soaked sawdust stuffed into boxes, etc. Speeds on these tests were just over 1200FPS, penetration was just under 36” to close to 50” from penta to solid. The first 3 bottles with the penta absolutely exploded and were gone. The solid was still impressive, but not explosive.

[bigbore5]

Plus shooting water jugs is fun. I've never recovered a bullet from doing it though. My picnic table is only long enough for 16 milk jugs. I don't know how many the 500L will go through, but I will pass on trying to shoot one into a pool!

[bula]

The square-ish cat litter buckets are way better than gallon jugs for the big boomers. Works for my 480. 

[bearskinner]

I like adding in 4” thick boxes with 8 sheets of OSB shrink wrapped together, same with piles of sticks shrink wrapped and boxed, etc.
Water only is impressive, but there’s heavier things inside critters.
In 454, 475, 500, 510 in revolvers and levers, I use an 8’ table and back it up with a stump as a bullet stop. The 50 Alaskan cleared the table, knocking off a 25 pound log round.
Interesting to some, one of my long range guns, a 378GNR, (375 in a necked down 405Win case) that will go thru a Zebra or Elk at 200 yards, has NO where near the penetration as a heavy 510.
But that’s why we use appropriate tools for different jobs.