Ryan posted a pic like this a while ago and some of you thought it was interesting, so I thought I would share. The left slug is a .270 140gr Ballistic Tip that came out of a buck I shot this year. I'm guessing it was traveling around 2850fps. It hit him in the front shoulder blade while he was quartering towards me, and buried just under the skin on the far side ribs about halfway back. It weighs 91 grains now, so it retained 65% of it's original weight. The right slug is a .224 55gr V-Max. I'm guessing this one was going around 3100fps. This came out of the bobcat I took the other night, it was a quartering away shot that took him under the last rib and buried just under the skin on the opposide front shoulder. This one weighs 20grains exactly, so it retained 36% of it's original weight.
Thats pretty cool Matt... I'm with Ryan.. I love looking at recovered slugs, its amazing to see the different performance from different bullets. What bullets were you shooting in the .270, that is pretty good performance.
Thanks! The .223 lost more mass because it's a V-Max and they are designed to fragment on impact specifically for thin skinned game. Most of the time you get a pencil sized hole going in, and then they completely fragment inside with no exit, this is by design. Great for those hunting furs, you don't get the nasty exit holes most of the time. No pics of the buck, he wasn't anything to write home about. I probably wouldn't have shot him, but he already was shot in the neck by someone else and I wasn't gonna let him get away wounded. They are both handloads. The .270 is Federal brass, Winchester large rifle primers, 53 grains of IMR 4831, and a COL of 3.455", just barely (.010) off the lands. For a factory barrel, they shoot really well out of my Remington 700, well under an inch. These loads aren't the fastest, but they shoot well and really perform well on deer.
Very cool, I just really started getting interested into hand-loading back before the 2008 rifel season. My grandfather has all the equipment and right before he went into the hospital he showed me around and got me started. I ended up loading my own shells for my .280 before the searon and killed my first coyote with shells that I loaded myself. I have done alot of shotgun re-loads in the past, but the rifle was a whole new ordeal. I have all the equipment now sitting in boxes and I just need to get it set back up so I can reload again this year.
I've had the pecil size hole going in, but I did not hit a bonr and had a pencil size hole coming out. luckily I took out the heart with a 135 grn ballistic Silver Tip. I backed down the powder and now I get some nice expansion.
