Today I fired the Barnes 190 from my 303 Savage through some water-filled gallon milk jugs set at 25 yards.
I used reduced H4895 loads to try to determine if the bullet expands at lower velocity. Had the chrono setup.
I fired once at 1205 fps. The bullet passed through all seven jugs that I had set up. The exit hole of the 7th jug was round and looked to be about the same as the entry hole on the 1st jug … so I’d say no expansion at 1200fps.
Next I fired twice (1485 and 1510fps). Both times, there were two irregular exit holes out the side of the 4th jug; nothing entered the 5th jug. No bullet recovery, but some form of expansion and/or separation occurred based on multiple exit holes.
