I think the Hunting section seems the most appropriate place for this thread.
I’ve been interested in this subject for a while now, it seems I’m not the only one with a bored 7yo inside, there’s a multitude of interesting articles and videos on Ewe Chewb and some lucky buggers get paid for doing it.
If you have any links or results from personal experiments, here’s the place to share them.
My most recent testing has been with .22 subsonic ammo to find the limits of their efficacy for murdering rabbits, ie expansion vs range.
For ease(laziness), I only tested the Sellier and Bellot because after the Lapua it was the next most accurate and the one with which I’ll be hunting.
For targets I used some plastic containers and compacted them tight with sandy topsoil and, with the lids replaced, put one each at 50, 75 and 100 metres.
I keep telling the executive of a certain association to send that to the bloke from registry that keeps shutting our silhouette ranges down because he believes that a bullet can impact steel targets, fly off on a 90 degree angle and travel twice as far as it would if fired straight in that direction…
Quite. The latest is that he wants all of our targets to be shrouded to stop these physics defying bullets. Of coarse the shrouds have to be bullet proof and then we have to shroud the shrouds to prevent them from being hit and the danger of more physics defying ricochets. Honestly, I am not making this shit up.
The next problem is that the shrouds then put our targets in the shadows making them harder to see and bloody difficult to set up. Ah bureaucrats, what would we do without the arseholes…
We use bisalloy for our targets and there is a minimum calibre of 6mm (.243") and no FMJ or penetrators for that exact reason. There isn’t much left of a projectile that hits a target, some lead dust and the copper jacket in the form of a flat disc that is found on the ground at the foot of the target. Nearest targets are the 200m chickens.
Yes, I have strayed from the topic but when the guy doing the ballistic “tests” nearly blew his face off I thought it worth inclusion as a cautionary example of the pitfalls of getting silly when setting off explosives inches from your head.
