by Hoot » Mon Jan 02, 2017 8:11 pm
Commander Faschisto actually started a thread on these bullets in the Reloading section under the General Discussion section. Crazy penetration videos on YouTube about these bullets! They are designed to come out looking like they went in, IE no deformation, so you're relying upon hydraulic shock from the wound channel. Lighter bullets will slow down faster, but based on those videos, I'm betting that at the higher velocity afforded by the light weight, they will still keep moving for a while. Of course, if you hit bone you produce plenty of organic shrapnel to do damage to the surrounding tissue. I would not be surprised to see those 135's easily make 3k+ fps with safe pressure levels. That plays well to flatter trajectories, but since they don't make any BC claims for these, that is strictly speculation. In my mind's eye, I worry that if you seat them to crimp into the groove, the OAL will be so short that they may have trouble veering up the feed ramp without hanging up. That needs to be determined as I'm again speculating. They're also going to have one heck of a jump to the leade. Given their short length, barely .15 longer than wide, they could wind up turning and heading off in a different direction than that which they entered and or tumbling, increasing the damage.
If you're getting these for close range head shots, there's no benefit from the Extreme Penetration factor, nor high velocity. Actually, you could load them with just enough uumph to cycle the action and have a real pussy cat of a shooter, while still being plenty lethal on head shots, but then so would a 223 fmj.
All the weights available for these in .452 leave me with a keen interest to see someone load some up and write them up, come spring. Despite having a bad backlog of pending work on my plate, I may have to give them a go myself once it warms up, assuming someone else doesn't do so beforehand. Just the pure curiosity of how fast they can be kicked is tantalizing.
Hoot
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