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Matt_Graham
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Re: Bought a Baikal (Remington) [Re: NitroX]
      #207171 - 16/04/12 12:31 PM

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I was wondering if the story was an old story from a cast bullet maker who made hard cast bullets which "performed better the slower they were pushed". This maker then went to Africa and told lots of AMAZING stories about his bullet performace (read bullshit stories).


There is some truth to that though JH - in general - when at normal cast bullet velocity the faster you drive a soft cast projectile the more it expands and the more it slows down (less penetration). That might partly explain wht the guy was going-on about??

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Re: Bought a Baikal (Remington) [Re: Matt_Graham]
      #207173 - 16/04/12 01:00 PM

Should also be noted that some of the newer hodgdon powders are capable of amazing things at really low pressures in the 45-70. Daryl can surely enlighten anyone interested.

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Re: Bought a Baikal (Remington) [Re: Smoke73]
      #207205 - 17/04/12 01:55 AM

Anyone with a good handle on bullet casting, knows about bullet hardening and tempering along with what alloys are necessary for the best results.

Ross Seyfreid took this to the next level, you might say, by using a 5 shot Linebough'd Ruger revolver to kill a Cape Buffalo.

Properly prepared, a WW alloy bullet can give virtually identical results to the best of the lead/guilding metal covered/steel jacketed bullets at speeds up to 2,000fps or 2,100fps - perhaps faster.

By tempering the bullets after hardening, you can achieve almost any level of penetration/expansion you want. Another option is making soft-points of various dimensions of 'solid' and soft sections. It's actualy quite marvelous, what can be done.

If interested, buy Veral Smith's book "Jacketed performance with Cast Bullets". I bought my copy in 1978.

He was actually driving soft points at 3,200fps and obtaining vertually identical performance to 180gr. Nosler Partitions.

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