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Campfire Greenhorn
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As a matter of fact, when the 286 Partition was new I got involved with a new bullet-testing medium my friend and fellow gun writer Richard Mann developed, made out of soft wax. Its big advantage was retaining the wound channel, so you could actually see how various bullets expanded (and sometimes didn't), but it also provided a valid comparison of how deeply each penetrated.
Was that the Bullet Test Tube, and, if so, what happened to it? I take it it's not available anymore. It seemed like a great idea.
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Campfire Kahuna
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Campfire Kahuna
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Yep. It was a great idea--but it disappeared during the Great Recession.
Before that it was pretty successful. A number of sporting goods stores stocked it, and several bullet companies started using it.
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.”
John Steinbeck
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Campfire Greenhorn
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Campfire Greenhorn
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Yep. It was a great idea--but it disappeared during the Great Recession.
Before that it was pretty successful. A number of sporting goods stores stocked it, and several bullet companies started using it. Thanks. That's too bad.
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Campfire Tracker
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Campfire Tracker
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I'm also sitting on hundreds of 286 NPs and equally as many 285 grain of the bullets PRVI loads in RN form. They are a freight train at 2280 in the woods.
The way life should be.
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Campfire Kahuna
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Campfire Kahuna
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One of the virtues of the 9.3x62 is that cup-and-core 285/286-grain bullets tend to work very well at factory muzzle velocities. Which of course are the bullets it was designed for over a century ago.
A few years ago I killed a cow nilgai (about the size of a cow elk) with the 286-grain Hornady factory load. The nilgai was standing almost directly facing me at around 200 yards, angled slightly to the left. I put the bullet inside the right shoulder, and the cow crow-hopped to the left about 10 feet and fell over dead. The Hornady had exited just behind the rear of the ribcage on the opposite side.
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.”
John Steinbeck
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Campfire Greenhorn
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There was a gentleman doing some testing on 9.3s, a few hundred miles north from here. He reported that Hornady performed the worst in his water jug test, among all other bullets tested.
It is good to hear it does not disintegrate into thin air once launched
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