Posted: 11/12/2005 4:12:46 PM EDT
| I did some HP testing yesterday and wanted to share with everyone. I used milk jugs filled with water for my tests. Ammo tested Speer GD 60gr, Winchester silvertip 60gr. I placed 3 milk jugs in a row and fired 7 rounds of each kind of ammo into the jug at 3 yards. All of the Speer rounds stopped in the 2nd jug. All of the bullets opened just a hair, but did not mushroom. All the Silvertips went into the 3rd jug, but did not exit. Five of the Silvertips mushroomed and two opened about half way. Does anybody know why there might be such a difference in bullet preformance being that they are the same weight? |
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much of it may be bullet construction. its odd because the gold dots are usually such good performers and are touted to be better than older designs like silvertips, hydroshocks, etc. velocity is a factor as well. if you could chronograph the two loads it will tell more of the story. one may be moving faster than the other. feeling one to be hotter than the other is pretty subjective, but could you tell by shooting if the winchester was hotter than the speer? i would lean towards velocity differences at first glance if they are both 60 gr. and both fired under identical conditions. generally, unexpanded bullets at equal velocity to expanded ones will penetrate further (generally!) hope this helps some. again, if you could find a chrony and check the differences in velocity it would be interesting. |