Found a bullet I had shot today.

[RoadkingLarry]

Here are a few cast .357 magnum loads I did for some comparison testing with a Hornady XTP with the same powder charge. The undeformed cast bullet was as cast.


Here are a couple of 150 gr .30-30 loads compared to a factory round. I decided this one was too soft and went iwth a harder alloy

 

[Packman]

I used to have .22 Remington Golden Bullets stay in soda cans occasionally.

It was pretty cool. You had to hit it at just the perfect angle, right near the edge. You could hear a WHIZZZZZ as it spun around inside the can, and then when you went to pick it up, you could hear the bullet rattle around inside. I've got a few around.

 

[ImARugerFan]

I've pulled 12ga slugs out of deer plenty of times. Pretty cool. I also found two fully intact 9mm bullets in the dirt the other day where I shoot.

 

[moooose102]

i found several 45acp in a pine tree i shot at several months earlier, aparently, all the holes weakened the tree enough that when a storm came, it broke in half where i was shooting. i recovered 6 fmj's from that part of the tree. i also have 1 45/70 bullet that i shot into 10 1 gallon milk jugs lined up in a row. i wanted to see how far it would penetrate. it went through 7 and ended up in the 8th. a perfectly mushroomed hornady 350 grain round nose. beautiful! at some time in the future, i would like to do this with all the guns i own. but a time shortage at the present prohibits that.

 

[NG VI]

I have an awesome 230 grain .45 ACP +P HST bullet I fired through a water filled 2-liter bottle into a snowbank, it is incredible. That alone has sold me on the HST as my first choice for a carry load, provided the gun in question likes it.

And I also have a 185 grain Golden Saber I found last summer, that is a neat looking thing as well. And a 180 grain Gold Dot, looks pretty fully expanded, I thought it was neat and worked well till I saw the way the HST expanded.

 

[Randy in Arizona]

Years ago I used to shoot into a large sand dune west of Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Real easy to back off a mile or so and lob in whatever you wanted to recover, then wander up the dune and dig out what you had shot. Rarely anyone else out there shooting so the only disturbed sand had to be your efforts.

 

[KI.W.]

There is plenty snow in my wintertime shooting. In the springtime I can to find many bullets. Many of them are in the good shape. There are only rifling traces.

 

[Gun Slinger]

When Michigan Deer Season opens and I get the chance to go to the cabin a couple of days in advance with my friends we usually head out back to the far end of the acreage where a large tree (well over 75 feet tall and at least 2 1/2 feet in diameter) stands, hollowed out by a porcupine that was shot several years ago by one of my friends.

The tree is hollow (the 'hollow' is spiral or helically shaped) for nearly half of it's height from the opening at its base and the opening easily allows for a handgun to be fired directly upward into the tree trunk and the bullets that are fired "upward" bounce around the inside of the trunk (you can hear them) and fall back down into the opening where you can recover them just by reaching in and picking them up, in most instances (~90% of the time) undeformed, except for the rifling marks on them.

We've done this for the last five years using FMJ bullets fired from 9mm, .40S&W, .357 Sig and .45 ACP. Hardcast bullets don't fare as well as they get a bit scratched up and JHP's are about a "50/50 proposition".

Makes for an interesting afternoon and lots of fun.

 

[Dorryn]

Two weeks ago I took a first-time shooter to the range. We progressed up through the handguns from .22 to .40 caliber. Finally, I let him try my M91/30. The ground must have been somewhat wet, possibly a little frozen? The Mosin literally threw clods of dirt BACK towards us 15 yards away.

It also threw back one of the .40 cal rounds we had just fired, still fresh and clean with only a bit of dent/smearing on one corner (where it obviously hit a rock of some sort).

I didnt expect the Mosin to throw that many huge clods of dirt. Nor bullets from previous shots.

 

[zxcvbob]

I've recovered some .45 Colt cast bullets that were fired at steel plates. They are "splats" about 2 inches in diameter, flat as a pancake, and look sort of like a daisy.

 

[PotatoJudge]

Here are a few I've recovered. The clogged hollow points were shot into dry stacks of paper and got plugged up, which is to be expected. I don't take it as an indicator of performance.

 

[SUWANNEE MAN]

I recovered the tungsten core from the M855/SS109. No lead, no jacket. It did punch through 3/8 inch plate steel and 10" X 10" of fresh pressure treated wood. Took pics to prove it. It blew holes out the back of the wood (steel in front) about golf ball sized...