Originally Posted by aalf

Not sure how milk jugs correlates to fur, but I did this little test with the 55 BT's last fall.

I set 5 jugs at 50 yards on a saw horse, and lined things up.

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Velocity was 2707 fps, and the shot knocked two jugs off.

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Impact was dead center, jug was not really blown apart, basically split, with the bullet coming apart, which you can see the exit in the 1st jug.

I taped it somewhat together to get an idea of the damage.

2nd jug caught the bullet base & a couple lead fragments. (laying in front of the 1st jug)

You can see the entrance in the back jug.

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I was hoping that it would hold together a little better in meat & fur at that velocity, but never found a test subject.



I did a similar test years back, but in my case they didn't make it though the first gallon jug.
So, I put a quart jug in front of the gallon jugs. Bullet cut the quart jug in two, but failed to make it into the gallon jug behind it. There was a 10 grain base in the remaining of the quart jug along a few small fragments, and that as it.

Based on that test I'd classify them as not for medium game.

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