Can we have a hollow point expansion picture thread?

[frankenfab]

Or has there already been one? I would love to see a thread with pictures of before and after expanding and the mold, too.

[Blammer]

185gr 45ACP at 750 fps out of my Kimber pro carry
from my NOE 230gr "ball" RG2 mould

[Blammer]

out of my 360 Dan Wesson at 1700fps
NOE 360180 Dish HP

[Blammer]

out of my 45acp
NOE 452316 HP's

[geargnasher]

My contrubution. Lyman 452374 Devastator hollow point, ACWW+2%Sn at 12.5 bhn, .45 ACP at approx. 850 fps.

Gear

[lwknight]

I'm a firm beliver in, that a small amount of tin aiding greatly in weight retension.

[geargnasher]

I'm a firm beliver in, that a small amount of tin aiding greatly in weight retension.

Yes, I did a little work to get those results. They will blow all to pieces with WW-levels of antimony without a balancing amount of tin. If you push them too fast they still blow up. Nothing beats 20-1 for a good hollow point handgun alloy, but I don't like to make it special if cheapo WW will work.

Gear

[GLynn41]

I love the dish HP --I have a Mihia 197 gr .41 devastator HP -- I wonder how I can get the dish thing for mine-- I am sure NOE makes good stuff and so does Mihia-- I will try to catch one out of my nomral .41 -- my .41/454 will go about 1750+ might be easier to catch -- the ones I have got from dirt -- blow away the the nose like a Nosler part -- which is not so bad

[Dannix]

Well, decided to not hijack this thread, but ask them in a new thread instead. Some nice pics here! I'm seriously considering a BRP 4-cav, all HP for my 9mm.

[RugerFan]

Mihec .452-200 Cramer HPs, 5.0 gns of Salute (Russian Unique), M1911A1. Shot a few into a dirt bank at about 5 yards. My bullets average weight after lubing/sizing is 204.4 gns (8 BHN). This recovered bullet weighed 202.3 gns with a diameter of .820”.

[fredj338]

SOme of my favorites:

[Dannix]

Mihec .452-200 Cramer HPs, 5.0 gns of Salute (Russian Unique), M1911A1. Shot a few into a dirt bank at about 5 yards. My bullets average weight after lubing/sizing is 204.4 gns (8 BHN). This recovered bullet weighed 202.3 gns with a diameter of .820”.

Alloy?

[303Guy]

Here is a 147gr 303Brit HP boolit fired into soft, fine sand.



Here is a 208gr boolit fired into soft, fine sand along with an unfired example.

Weight retention is around 98%.

A lower velocity hollow point fired into wet rags.

[quack1]

Don't know what you're looking for but here are after pictures of Lyman 225462 and 225438 used on groundhogs. AC wheel weights with a little tin hollow pointed on a lathe, approx .085 diameter hole drilled to first grease groove. Both right around 2000fps.

[Fenring]

The left three are .44 Devastators cast from air cooled clip on WW's and launched at 1650fps from my Ruger 96/44. All they were recovered from pigs ranging from about 25kg to 60kg. No shot was longer than about 30 metres and the bullets were just sitting under the skin on the off side. Average retained weight was 165gr. They started out at 275gr.

The last bullet is the Lee .44 flat nose solid that started out at 315gr from the same alloy, launched at 1500fps. That bullet hit a boar of about 50kg at maybe 15 metres, and was found in the layer of gristle "armour" almost directly opposite, just under the skin. 313gr left!

[Ben]

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=42960

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=30029

[ghh3rd]

The last bullet is the Lee .44 flat nose solid that started out at 315gr from the same alloy, launched at 1500fps. That bullet hit a boar of about 50kg at maybe 15 metres, and was found in the layer of gristle "armour" almost directly opposite, just under the skin. 313gr left!

Hope this is the Lee .430 310 grain Round Flat Nose boolit, cause that's what I've been casting, although I haven't had the opportunity to point one towards a hog, yet. Mine have been leaving my Ruger SBH at about 1380 fps with 21.5 gr of W296.

[Fenring]

It is.

[Butcher45]

.452 Devastators (to small for my .454 barrel) shot from my air rifle at about 750fps. Recovered from saturated phone books (the bottom one with the calipers may have been shot into water.....same difference expansion-wise). Cast by BlackJackHill before they went under. Extremely soft lead (the box was labeled "207grain").

I just now weighed the middle one in the top picture that was recovered from the books (shot almost three years ago), and it appears to have retained %100 of its weight (208grains).

[RugerFan]

Alloy?

50/50 pure lead/WW