Science project report (long)
03-25-2012, 04:08 PM
#21
Boone & Crockett
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Great post WV Hunter. Like most of the guys here I've seen my fair share of school science fair projects. The effort you son put into conducting and documenting that experiment is way above most anything I've seen. If the HNI forum guys could be on the judging panel he would get the gold for sure.
03-25-2012, 04:47 PM
#22
Typical Buck
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WV Hunter,
Very nice test. It's nice to see that your sons school let him do a gun related project.
Here is a .400 200gr SST which left the muzzle around 2500fps. I recovered it on the offside shoulder on a Maryland whitetail shot at around 130yds. It either weighed 140 or 160gr recovered.
Might want to tell the teacher to look here for positive feedback.
Very nice test. It's nice to see that your sons school let him do a gun related project.
Here is a .400 200gr SST which left the muzzle around 2500fps. I recovered it on the offside shoulder on a Maryland whitetail shot at around 130yds. It either weighed 140 or 160gr recovered.
Might want to tell the teacher to look here for positive feedback.
03-25-2012, 05:18 PM
#23
Boone & Crockett
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A very interesting report and I can appreciate all of the work that went into it.
But I'm more impressed by the result of the Sierra 300 grain FP's that weighed 283 grains
after being fired as shown in post #9.
http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/3924093-post9.html
As the Bloodline article explains,
That result could be beneficial for penetrating a very large thick skinned animal like a big bear or buffalo.
But I'm more impressed by the result of the Sierra 300 grain FP's that weighed 283 grains
after being fired as shown in post #9.
http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/3924093-post9.html
As the Bloodline article explains,
That result could be beneficial for penetrating a very large thick skinned animal like a big bear or buffalo.
03-26-2012, 06:42 AM
#24
Nontypical Buck
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A very interesting report and I can appreciate all of the work that went into it.
But I'm more impressed by the result of the Sierra 300 grain FP's that weighed 283 grains
after being fired as shown in post #9.
http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/3924093-post9.html
As the Bloodline article explains,
That result could be beneficial for penetrating a very large thick skinned animal like a big bear or buffalo.
But I'm more impressed by the result of the Sierra 300 grain FP's that weighed 283 grains
after being fired as shown in post #9.
http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/3924093-post9.html
As the Bloodline article explains,
That result could be beneficial for penetrating a very large thick skinned animal like a big bear or buffalo.
On 'regular' game, I personally would not choose the Sierra's...I'd rather have a bullet with a little more expansion.
03-26-2012, 06:45 AM
#25
Nontypical Buck
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WV Hunter,
Very nice test. It's nice to see that your sons school let him do a gun related project.
Here is a .400 200gr SST which left the muzzle around 2500fps. I recovered it on the offside shoulder on a Maryland whitetail shot at around 130yds. It either weighed 140 or 160gr recovered.
Might want to tell the teacher to look here for positive feedback.
Very nice test. It's nice to see that your sons school let him do a gun related project.
Here is a .400 200gr SST which left the muzzle around 2500fps. I recovered it on the offside shoulder on a Maryland whitetail shot at around 130yds. It either weighed 140 or 160gr recovered.
Might want to tell the teacher to look here for positive feedback.
03-26-2012, 06:48 AM
#26
Nontypical Buck
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03-26-2012, 06:50 AM
#27
Nontypical Buck
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Great post WV Hunter. Like most of the guys here I've seen my fair share of school science fair projects. The effort you son put into conducting and documenting that experiment is way above most anything I've seen. If the HNI forum guys could be on the judging panel he would get the gold for sure.
03-26-2012, 09:10 AM
#28
Nontypical Buck
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Great report! Very interesting, and I can see a lot of work went into it. It must have been a lot of fun to do as well. Tests like this are a good way to have some sort of "baseline" for comparing different bullets. Bullet performance on live game however, may vary....
I was also impressed by the performance of the big lead bullets. I think with any of those options you will have no trouble with any sort of game in the lower 48....
I was also impressed by the performance of the big lead bullets. I think with any of those options you will have no trouble with any sort of game in the lower 48....
03-26-2012, 03:06 PM
#29
Nontypical Buck
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Great report WV! I'm happy to see how the Speer .44cal/240gr bullets performed. Dollar for performance value can't be beat.
Not too surprised at the .50cal/250gr Speer. That crazy deep hollow point has always concerned me a bit. You could do shots out of it.
Not too surprised at the .50cal/250gr Speer. That crazy deep hollow point has always concerned me a bit. You could do shots out of it.
03-26-2012, 06:33 PM
#30
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Thanks again for sending some to test, appreciate it!