Home Forums Reloading Big Game Rifles 6.5 bullet test

Not sure if it’s much interest to you guys but the other day I was bored so did a little testing with my 6.5-06 at close range. I had a couple elk femurs in the freezer that I was saving for the dogs so I pulled them out to do a little bullet testing of 140 grain bergers started at 3100fps and 142 grain lrab started at 2950fps. I wrapped the femur in 3 layers of cardboard and then taped it to a 3 gallon water jug. Then I stacked three jugs together and stepped back to 40 yards

heres the entrance of the 140 grain berger


exit on the femur of the 140 grain berger


completely destroyed first jug and pieces of bullet made it into the second jug


not much of an entrance and exit picture of the joint as the 142 lrab destroyed it


142 lrab didn't do near the damage to the 1st jug as the berger
the 142 lrab went through first jug, dumped shrapnel in second jug, and made it into the third jug with enough energy to put a hole on the far side of the jug but not enough to get all the way through it which was about 3' of water jugs.


slug weighed 63.2 grains

Hope you find my crude test interesting. Id have no problem running either one into an elk