I'm breaking away from my usual funny stuff posts to get you guys to comment on this.
I've seen many posts here on bullet performance, penetration tests, velocity vs. bullet weight vs. caliber and on and on.
See what you think of this. Recently, some of us were out shooting and we had a new guy with us. He talked me into shooting some of his hand loads in .45 ACP. I didn't think to much about it at first, but just in case I used my old AMT Govt. Model with his ammo. I noticed a little more recoil and asked what load did he use. 5.0 gr. of W231 with a 220 lead wad cutter, he said. Then he stated that he had trouble with this round chambering somtimes and that a friend of his had told him to ROLL CRIMP the case and that took care of the problem! After straightening him out on this issue we went down range to check our targets. We had set up some junk 30lb propane tanks at about 35 yds.(EMPTY OF COURSE) Looking over the tanks, we found .45 holes in the front, and jagged 3" or more in the back!!!! WE dug around in the dirt to try and find a spent slug, but found nothing much looking like a .45. With this roll crimp on this bullet and the resulting high pressure, wonder what the velocity was on those screamers. Also I noticed that his Colt was way looser than it should have been.!!!!
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Proud,dues paying,member of the "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy"
I've seen many posts here on bullet performance, penetration tests, velocity vs. bullet weight vs. caliber and on and on.
See what you think of this. Recently, some of us were out shooting and we had a new guy with us. He talked me into shooting some of his hand loads in .45 ACP. I didn't think to much about it at first, but just in case I used my old AMT Govt. Model with his ammo. I noticed a little more recoil and asked what load did he use. 5.0 gr. of W231 with a 220 lead wad cutter, he said. Then he stated that he had trouble with this round chambering somtimes and that a friend of his had told him to ROLL CRIMP the case and that took care of the problem! After straightening him out on this issue we went down range to check our targets. We had set up some junk 30lb propane tanks at about 35 yds.(EMPTY OF COURSE) Looking over the tanks, we found .45 holes in the front, and jagged 3" or more in the back!!!! WE dug around in the dirt to try and find a spent slug, but found nothing much looking like a .45. With this roll crimp on this bullet and the resulting high pressure, wonder what the velocity was on those screamers. Also I noticed that his Colt was way looser than it should have been.!!!!
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Proud,dues paying,member of the "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy"