Howdy, guys and gals! Welcome back to the social regressive where we are
continuing to test 350 legend to see if we can get that magical projectile that's
going to expand properly, put a real hurtin on critters, and get the kind
of depth that we're after. I'm not so concerned about how far these projectiles
travel through the critter. I'm more concerned about what kind of cavity they
leave here so we're gonna try to find some we've done some other tests make
sure that you check out the whole playlist to see what we've been testing
we've got 223 expanding projectiles we have some 350 Legend 357 Magnum to kind of
compare against the whole thing make sure you check everything out yeah today
we're going to take a look at these two we have the 150 grain extreme point it
has kind of a plastic tip on the nose so it's like these you know the ballistic
tips that you get from Hornady or whatever and then we have a 180 grain
just kind of soft point and I'm expecting good things from both of these
let's go see how they do at 100 yards and 200 yards
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see this mess right up top this gigantic wound channel this is exactly what we've
been looking for and this is the winchester 150 grain deer season with
that that plastic point up at the front you can see the point just hanging out
all by itself it kind of blew off a little shortly here into the track you
can see that it opens up after just a little after an inch and then boom this
thing gets about two inches wide at max and it has a long track that goes back
to probably about the 10 inch mark settles down a little bit and there's
the projectile just picture-perfect curled back nicely and this is about sixteen
and a half inches heading up towards 17 what a hit now let's get this out to 200
and see if it can do the same thing
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180 Green Winchester soft point
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this dark track down here this is the 180 grain from Winchester and this is
looking just beautiful its widest point looks like it's about six inches in and
that's about one in three-quarter inches wide it's looking very good compared to
the the Hornady the two of these seem to be performing very similarly wonderful
projectiles both of them you can see that they definitely expanded this one also
seems to have tumbled it's gone backwards that's why we have this kind
of leaf cut shape going through here and then this one took a nosedive and I was
afraid it was going to end up going through the table and out the bottom but
no there's the projectile right there let's take a look at it there's our
projectile I can actually just pull it out of the gel it isn't warm anymore yeah
you can see the the cutting petals that we have going through here now these
would have been bent back forward after they turned around these probably looked
beautiful when they were going forward and then when they flipped they kind of
peeled off yeah this is looking pretty wide we're gonna see how wide this is
here in a bit but yeah this one finally came to rest at probably about the okay
is about 32 inches of gel this is probably about 29 inches where it
finally came to a stop great performer let's see how this does it 200
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that longshot camera down there is a lifesaver it's the only way I can tell
if I've really hit I can see the sand fly sometimes but it could just because
I missed this is really showing me what's going on the winchester 150 grain
deer season XP wins the day at about two inches this suddenly flares out in a
gigantic way and we're talking about one and a half inches of permanent wound
channel going through here if you don't count the little bits that came off and
this cuts a big wide channel going back to about that 10 inch mark and then
starting to settle down a little bit and then the projectile comes to rest here at
about 17 inches this is inside that second block with a gorgeous mushroom we
have a second hit in this block that looks almost exactly the same so the one
down below that one also flared out very quickly made a huge moon channel and
then this one actually stopped inside the first block and look at those petals
curled back this is very wide at 200 yards the winchester deer season XP
performed almost exactly the same as it did at 100 yards you can see we have
chunks of copper flying out it very obviously dramatically expanded so we're
looking at that same one and a half inches of width all the way across on
here and it continues cutting a pretty wide swath until we get to about the 12
inch mark it settles down just a bit continues cutting pretty decently and
then it flies out of the block we had a misalignment on these blocks when this
was fired so this actually ended up into sandbag and hopefully we can check out
those fragments from 100 yards the 180 grain soft point from Winchester you can
see made an impressive mess this one hit with authority with a lot of energy and
you can see that it has created all kinds of char here inside the the gel
this is one of the wider channels this one comes out to be almost one and a
half inches at that maximum point right there
and it continues cutting this wide channel who knows what all is going on
this right here looks like tumbling and cutting with those petals and then
cutting through the block and then coming to rest down here at the bottom
at 200 yards of 180 grain SP doesn't really cut anything wider than about a
half inch it gets just a little bit above that but the cool thing about this
is that it continues to make that sort of cut all the way through block number
one and then going into block number two it might have begun to tumble in here
and create some some extra wounding through there you can see that we have
this sort of leaf shape going on and this is kind of mixed up with some other
blocks the dark one that you see back there is from another hit I think it's a
winchester XP but sitting on top of it is this leaf cut settles down and then
comes out of the block goes through all 32 inches of gel at 200 yards we're
gonna see what we have in the bag the 150 grain XP at 100 yards has mushroom
gigantically as you can see this is extremely wide as shed bits of copper I
went in and dug out a couple of them but really there are all kinds of little
chunks of copper that have blown out like I don't know like cherry blossoms
and just kind of gone off into various channels this is one that if for some
reason it didn't finish the hog or deer on that first hit which I really expect
that it would they're not going to be traveling too far with all those little
pieces cutting it's it's is a pretty fun little thing this is the tip that was
that I was able to recover this is basically undamaged and I don't know
maybe I'll send that back to Winchester so they can use it again let's see what
kind of weight we have or what kind of width we have I'm gonna just dump these
little chunks back here in the scale let's see how wide this is at max all
right we're looking at about point six to six point six to five somewhere in
there Oh point six four - dang this thing is huge across
it's more it's more shallow x-axis it's still over 0.6 this is gigantic
what a great projectile let's see how much weight this has retained all right out
of the 150 we originally had we are down to one eighteen point eight and that
does include that little tip our 200-yard hit ended up going into the bag
and I have to try to guess which one of these it is I believe that it is this
one right here it looks like it took up some extra damage after it struck the
sand I know this one has a maximum width of 0.5 nine zero so it's still heading
up toward point six let's see how much retain weight that we have one fourteen
point four the 180 grain soft point from Winchester is a different beast
altogether as you saw from those ballistics gel tests that went the 150
grain XP wants to open up really quickly and you know create a great big
wound channel immediately whereas this one is just gonna blaze on through and
continue to make a very consistent cut all the way through and actually I can't
tell which of these that I recover from the sandbag because they did go through
all 32 inches of ballistics jail I can't tell which one of these is the 200-yard
hit I think it's this one this one that you see up front seems to be expanded a
little bit more I think this is the 100 this one seems to have tumbled at least
once the petals are looking a little bit funky on one side and this one the
pedals are turned completely back around pointing in the forward direction so
this one tumbled at least once I think that's the 200 not really sure that's
the kind of cool thing about this one no matter what kind of distance you're at
it's gonna perform very consistently so yeah if you want to make absolutely sure
that whatever distance your critter is that that it's gonna do the same thing
you might look at this one and also this is that one to consider if you're
dealing with more extreme game this one's actually listed on the box as
being a bear around and I I would have to agree with that I think this would do
quite well it's gonna be able to punch through bone it's gonna be able to get
through everything and it's just gonna continue to perform
all the way through the critter so we're looking at this one opening up to 0.5 4
5 somewhere in there at the widest let's see what kind of would retain weight we
have all right we are still looking at 173 grains through there so this did not
lose much we might have lost a petal or two of copper off there but that is
about it this one that I assume is my 200 yard hit is coming out to be this is
kind of a weird window of measure yeah .513 somewhere in there yeah this
one is a little bit strange but they retained weight on this to be pretty
good too it seems to have held together quite well 170 1.9 so yeah plenty of
lead and copper left good performance the Winchester XP at 100 yards came out
to be about 2.23 inches across in this 5-round group remember that this is not a
varmint cartridge this is designed for practical targets at practical distances
and that is plenty of precision for that as far as precision of velocities go
we're looking at an average of 2219 feet per second on these with a standard
deviation of a low 12.04 so that is not too shabby at all this is pretty precise
for the 180 grain soft point we're looking at just a tad over two inches
across on this group with an average velocity of 1958 feet per second and a
standard deviation of velocity thereof again are pretty low 17.2 so both of
these are going to be able to get on target pretty easily and then once you
make those hits kind of depending on what you're after you're gonna get the
effect that you're after this one's gonna dump a lot of energy early on this
one's going to maintain it all the way through the critter. I expect that both of
these would perform very well if they did strike bone or something else
similarly hard this one right here of course is just going to continue to tear
through no what it hits this one is just a beast
whereas this one is gonna try to dump a lot more energy a little bit earlier
make sure you don't miss the upcoming videos because we are continuing to test
350 legend and then we have some others on the way and we're talking about 243
Winchester 6.5 Creedmoor and then 5.7 by 28 we're gonna have a lot of fun with
those we're gonna get into some new projectiles new ammunition types we're
gonna see how they perform against gel against steel all kinds of other fun
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