Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Handguns Hornady 225 FTX 44 mag! Test!

Very impressed. Wet newsprint point blank from my Dan Wesson with the 4" Barrel on. 2 feet of penetration! I would trust it on any North American game!

Point blank and wet newsprint equates to trust on "any North American game"? I would have to do more testing before I could say that. Looks like heavy bone could be a problem as could heavy fat on a bear.

OK Most NA game then. And I would not sweat the fat.

Good penetration for an expanding bullet.

Worth a look: http://handloads.com/misc/linebaugh.penetration.tests.asp

I'm more interested in seeing how it performs on actual game flesh. I would limit that light a bullet to whitetail on the high end, but that's just me.

The depth of penetration in wet paper depends on how wet the paper is, how tightly stacked the paper is, as well as other factors. Without a know penetrator on game shot into the same stack as a control round for comparison, the test really doesn't tell you much.

On a long haired fat bear I would certainly be concerned about those factors for penetrating through the vitails.