At first I was not going to bother to answer the nay-sayers here. I don’t care if they believe me or not, and I don’t care if they know what’s true or not. I am retired from that field, and I don’t have a dog in the fight at this point.
But for the benefit of those that may truly want to know the truth and the facts, I’ll answer this issue.
I have a great deal of experience in making, shooting and hunting with handguns as well as rifles When I was the head ballistician and later the CEO of Cast Performance Bullet Company, I was the man that fired and oversaw the firing of more rounds of ammo then most shooters will fire in a lifetime.
I measure shots fired in how many times I have had to rebarrel guns because of having shot the throats out of them.
That’s a LOT of rounds in a revolver gentleman. I have had to rebarrel three 44 mag handguns and two 357 mag handguns because of eroded throats and ALL of those rounds were fire by me personally. I have also rebarreled about 10 other guns that were shot out by friends and old employees of mine.
In addition to firing hundreds of thousands of round over 20 years in lab work, I also have been a handgun hunter now for 40 years.
We bought out alloy
40 tons at a time, and had to have shipments coming in regularly.
We went through thousands of TONS of lead based alloy in out production.
Probably 98% of that was made into handgun bullets. Our bullets were used all over the world and we got pictures and reports from hunters every week with them telling us how the bullets worked for them. I had 3 large metal drawers full of letters from our customers from all over the world. Thousands of animals shot with out bullets, and we got complaints very very very seldom.
So even though I have killed many large animals with LBT bullets, I pale in comparison to some of our customers, and we had thousands and thousands of customers.
Now…..Nay-Sayers……… please tell us
your vast experience in the field.
Not those things you read, and not some theory.
Not what you wish the truth was, but what you have ACTUALLY done, and what you actually know!
Here is a video of Lynn Thompson shooting in Australia. He’s using a 44 magnum Ruger Redhawk. Lynn used to buy our bullets and so I am assuming he’s using them here. The pigs don’t prove very much, but buffalo do. Many buffalo killed with our 44 cal 320 WFN Gas Check Bullets do not retain the bullets. It’s common to get full penetration and exit wounds. It’s also common to have would channels (called cavitations) that are as large (and sometimes larger) in diameter then you get with jacketed soft points.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKTeEmNUkjw
How many of you folks think you can get a 30-30 with a 170 grain soft point to exit buffalo on broad side or quartering shots?
Show me if you can, and IF YOU HAVE!
I leave the discussion now. I am trying to help a man with an honest question. As I said, I don’t have a dog in the fight anymore, and I don’t care if I am believed or not.
I know what I know. You may believe what you want to believe.