260 PT Gold's giving me a headache!
03-31-2011, 02:29 PM
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260 PT Gold's giving me a headache!
Thanks to my niece she passed a bug on to me and made me sicker than a dog for a day. Today though i felt better and wanted to take advantage of the chilly 80* windless day. I loaded up my nephews CVA Wolf with 110gr Blackhorn209, CCI 209 Magnum primers and took my shooting bag out to 100 yards.
This Wolf will need a tighter fitting sabot though as i expected. But i wasn't worried about the group, i had just filled up a 5 gallon bucket with damp sand earlier and so i wanted to recover a few bullets.
That didn't go as planned either!
I took my Two shots at 100 yards and was flabbergasted when no bullets were in the sand. I DID find one of them " pictured" on the ground aprox. 4 feet behind my sand bucket. The second bullet i found was mangled up under some sand stone rocks but even that held 212 grains out of 260grs.
Recovered bullet pictured weighs 224 grains and has a little bit of the polly tip still smeared into the lead.
To be honest, I don't know how much more testing i will do with these bullets as they have been giving me a complete head ache in trying to recover them. Im pretty impressed though with the recovered bullets from today, but still would like to do a wet news paper test.
This Wolf will need a tighter fitting sabot though as i expected. But i wasn't worried about the group, i had just filled up a 5 gallon bucket with damp sand earlier and so i wanted to recover a few bullets.
That didn't go as planned either!
I took my Two shots at 100 yards and was flabbergasted when no bullets were in the sand. I DID find one of them " pictured" on the ground aprox. 4 feet behind my sand bucket. The second bullet i found was mangled up under some sand stone rocks but even that held 212 grains out of 260grs.
Recovered bullet pictured weighs 224 grains and has a little bit of the polly tip still smeared into the lead.
To be honest, I don't know how much more testing i will do with these bullets as they have been giving me a complete head ache in trying to recover them. Im pretty impressed though with the recovered bullets from today, but still would like to do a wet news paper test.
03-31-2011, 02:36 PM
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Thanks to my niece she passed a bug on to me and made me sicker than a dog for a day. Today though i felt better and wanted to take advantage of the chilly 80* windless day. I loaded up my nephews CVA Wolf with 110gr Blackhorn209, CCI 209 Magnum primers and took my shooting bag out to 100 yards.
This Wolf will need a tighter fitting sabot though as i expected. But i wasn't worried about the group, i had just filled up a 5 gallon bucket with damp sand earlier and so i wanted to recover a few bullets.
That didn't go as planned either!
I took my Two shots at 100 yards and was flabbergasted when no bullets were in the sand. I DID find one of them " pictured" on the ground aprox. 4 feet behind my sand bucket. The second bullet i found was mangled up under some sand stone rocks but even that held 212 grains out of 260grs.
Recovered bullet pictured weighs 224 grains and has a little bit of the polly tip still smeared into the lead.
To be honest, I don't know how much more testing i will do with these bullets as they have been giving me a complete head ache in trying to recover them. Im pretty impressed though with the recovered bullets from today, but still would like to do a wet news paper test.
This Wolf will need a tighter fitting sabot though as i expected. But i wasn't worried about the group, i had just filled up a 5 gallon bucket with damp sand earlier and so i wanted to recover a few bullets.
That didn't go as planned either!
I took my Two shots at 100 yards and was flabbergasted when no bullets were in the sand. I DID find one of them " pictured" on the ground aprox. 4 feet behind my sand bucket. The second bullet i found was mangled up under some sand stone rocks but even that held 212 grains out of 260grs.
Recovered bullet pictured weighs 224 grains and has a little bit of the polly tip still smeared into the lead.
To be honest, I don't know how much more testing i will do with these bullets as they have been giving me a complete head ache in trying to recover them. Im pretty impressed though with the recovered bullets from today, but still would like to do a wet news paper test.
03-31-2011, 03:44 PM
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Just so I have this straight, the bullet penetrated the 5 gallon bucket of sand??? If so, that is a very good sign of the bullets integrity.
I had complete pass throughs on 5 deer with PT golds, but all of them were shot behind the shoulder when the deer was broadside or very close to broadside.
I had complete pass throughs on 5 deer with PT golds, but all of them were shot behind the shoulder when the deer was broadside or very close to broadside.
03-31-2011, 03:50 PM
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03-31-2011, 03:53 PM
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oh bite me!
I really am surprised how these things are just blowing through my sand buckets, even at 50 yards you'd think there would be a chance at catching them.
Time to double up on the 5 gallon buckets i guess.
I really am surprised how these things are just blowing through my sand buckets, even at 50 yards you'd think there would be a chance at catching them.
Time to double up on the 5 gallon buckets i guess.
03-31-2011, 05:18 PM
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Well i caught 2 more just by adding a 1" layer of wet news paper on the rear portion of the bucket!
I'll have to take pics later tomorrow and then i will post them.
The Wolf is all dialed in now!
I'll have to take pics later tomorrow and then i will post them.
The Wolf is all dialed in now!
03-31-2011, 06:02 PM
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I think it may have something to do with the bullet being harder than pure lead and the fact it's copper jacket is plated to the bullet. Ray