Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Africa Penetration on african plains game with the NP and the Swift-A-Frames

As Ray said, this fall I tested penetration of various bullets in damp magazines with the 30-06 and included the 180 TSX, 200 gr Swift , 220 Partitions and 220 Woodleighs and the 240gr Woodleighs.
In order of penetration - with the deepest first - was the 220 Partition ( 13 inches) Followed by the 200 Swift and 180 TSX ( 11 inches) , 240 Woodleigh PP ( 10") and finally the 220 RN Woodleigh ( 8 1/2")
I also tested both 220 Woodleigh solids and the old Hornady 220 steel jacketed solids and they both exited 48" .

For a comparison I also fired 270 gr TSX from a .375 and got 11 inches, the 400gr Hornady DGX .416 ( 10 inches) , The 570 gr TSX from my 505 Gibbs ( 13 inches) and a couple of 900 gr Woodleighs from a 600 Overkill ( 9 & 13 inches)

You can see that in the penetration department that 220 Partitions give up little to other calibers. In fact I carried my 30-06 this season as backup during bear season and was forced to followup a wounded bear that charged from 5 yards.
Hopefully Rick can stick a photo of me and the bear on here.