Brian Carlson
Inactive
Have any of you worked with the Lost River Ballisitics J36 bullets? I have seen their ads in various magazines. Some of these ads show a photo of an expanded bullet which to me is hardly expanded at all. The photo does not give me confidence to use these bullets but I did not want to rule them out based on one photo. I remember an extensive article that a guy did on various bullets (30 caliber 180 grain as I remember). He tested depth of penetration, I think in wet phone books, and weight of recovered bullet and he photographed the recovered bullets. He fired them at velocities ranging from I think about 3100 fps down to about 1400 fps. I remember that the Jensen bullets did very well compared to all the others. The Jensen bullet is the predecessor to the Lost River bullet. Presumably Warren Jensen thinks his new bullet is even better than the old one but as I said the photo in their new ads leaves me uninspired. I would be most interested to hear from those of you who have used these bullets. Have any of you taken game with them? If so how did they perform? How accurate are they compared to others that you have worked with? Were they any more difficult to work up a load for than other bullets? They appear to be quite long- magazine length may prohibit getting these bullets close enough to the lands to get an accurate load. Have any of you utilized their load development service and if so were you satisfied with the load they came up with? Thanks for the input, Brian.