Recovered bullets

[wolf_from_wv]

A local range has some kind of heavy rubber mat that you staple targets to. As I was stapling one day, I looked down and found a bullet. Then another. 2-3 times I have been the only one there, and have picked up what I found...












Range is 25 yards.

 

[mekender]

kinda scary how few of those rounds mushroomed isnt it?

 

[sm]

Does not match the gun rag or teh Intraweb hype does it?
*snicker*.

I grew up shooting dirt, or as it is commonly known by its highly technical name
Scientific Mud/Dirt Test. .
Mentors did this to see how far a bullet penetrated, comparison of factory and reloaded ammunition, and sometimes just goofing off and giving me something to do.
Meaning I'd have to carefully dig into the box, find bullet, measure,and kept me busy...and learn from all this.
Real damn scary how when these same bullets used in critters were recovered, how they matched with critters used on.
Critters include people as some Mentors were in the Medical fields.

Get bigger, do some Medical stuff myself, and again, some hype don't match what recovered from humans.

Private range, and using a Bale made from Recycled diapers [like Kimberly-Clark does] for backstop, we cut some of these apart and looked at everything from .22 short, to Dangerous Gun calibers, to even 10 ga slugs.

Oh well, some marketing folks gotta eat too, buy braces for kids and send them to college we suppose.

Use Enough Hype

 

[rcmodel]

Many perfectly good JHP designs will not expand in fairly dry dirt, or even fairly damp dirt.

No surprise there, as they depend on body fluids to make them open up.

If they would expand or blow open on a dry medium such as dirt, they would also do the same thing on auto glass, down vests, I-Pod's, etc.

And none of us want that!


rcmodel

 

[sm]

No Absolutes on any of this.
Seen the bullets in XRays, then the bodies themselves during surgery, and Organ Harvests...

Stuff does not always do the same thing even if same body, same bullet from same gun and a 1/2" difference in distance.

Shot placement seems to be the key...

 

[CoRoMo]

I've got my own collection of range bullets too. I also like to shoot into phone books. Tie three or four together and pound away. They usually catch every bullet, and you can see what they turn into after hitting the book.