Howdy, guys and gals! Welcome back to the social regressive. lately we're
taking a much bigger interest in the lethality of some of these projectiles
that we've been using largely because of a hog hunt that we did a little a while
back where we were pumping round after round of BTHP match into these hogs and
they just were not dropping they would kind of stagger a little bit then keep
on going and we had to track them down into the brush to finish them off it was
actually pretty dangerous for us and it was you know certainly not so pleasant
for the hogs so we're gonna start stepping things up a little bit now
first off we are working up 350 legend and 458 SOCOM for these hunts in the
future those are definitely going to pack a gigantic wallop especially within
200 yards that last hunt was at about a hundred twenty yards out to about a
hundred fifty hundred eighty somewhere in there as they started to run away but
yeah we're still kind of assuming that we'll have some closer distances and I
think that we can get increased lethality out of some 224 diameter
projectiles so we're gonna continue with 223 Remington and see what we can do to kind
of step things up in the last video we checked out the 55 grain speer gold dot
you guys know about the gold dot pistol projectiles they really are kind of the gold
standard for defensive loads they always seem to do a great job of mushrooming
out and making you know a good hit kind of no matter what they're fired through
any kind of you know velocity they just seem to do a really good job and it
looks like the new rifle projectiles are gonna do the same thing we're gonna be
testing out a good handful of these so today the 62-grain speer gold dot is
a good step up from that 55 you can see in terms of ballistic efficiency this is
a little bit of a different projectile shape that last one had a kind of a hollow
base this one has that great same shape up here at the nose but then on the back
we actually have a rebated boat tail a lot like what you get on CheyTac projectile s
and this cuts through the air quite well but the important part is what it does
when it hits and that's we're gonna be testing out today the 55 s did
wonderfully as you can see or right back here we do have this beautiful path
cut almost from the beginning of the entry all the way this long distance and
then finally coming to rest way back here at 14 and a half inches it's not a
huge amount of penetration but that's exactly what I'm after I want this to
dump its energy as early as possible inside the hog the powder that we're
using is alliance 2000 mr which is shaping up to be a wonderful powder this
is doing really well in 223 so far we're going to test some other cartridges with
it
the 62-grain gold dot splits the difference between the 55 and a 75 quite
nicely actually with most of its performance seeming to favor the higher
end you can see that instead of the 14 inches the leading edge of this
projectile at 100 yards this is the 62-grain gold dot this is coming in at
about 18 and 3/4 inches and I can feel this just below the surface of the gel
right here this one did take a kind of a downward turn but just look at that it
has mushroomed wonderfully and we have quite a large wound channel going on
here okay so here's kind of the thin part hitting back and then here is the
main so this one does start to open up very quickly we're looking again at
about you know an inch inch and a quarter as it starts to open up and then
it becomes quite wide and this continues to be nice and wide until we get to
about nine inches it starts to flatten out a little bit it flares out again it
looks like it almost looks like a tumble just a little bit but we kind of have a
secondary wound channel going on right here you can see that it's pretty
2-dimensional just along one of the axes or it's cutting through but yeah we kind
of get this secondary one that goes on for about three inches and then settles
down and ends up right here just like the 55 grain Gold dot we're looking at
about a one-inch wound Channel as far as width goes and that does last
for quite a few inches and you can see all the soot in there from when this
struck and kind of dumped all its energy vaporized whatever this material is made
out of it's like a splat ball and detonated it and you can see the light
in the slow-mo so yeah this one begins at about that 3/4 inch mark and it
flares out pretty much to that full inch mark as far as width goes
and then this one just keeps on going and it finally settles down we're at
about twelve and a half inches in this is a beautiful wound channel going
through here and this is demonstrating that okay not all hits are going to be
exactly the same and this one should perform pretty well at some of the
longer distances
as you can see our 62-grain gold dot has mushroomed gorgeously this is huge and
just looking at it it seems like it's bigger across in the 55 s we came in at
about 4 and 3/4 but I think about 480 thousands across as a maximum width on
the 55 and with this when we're looking at 483 oh yeah 495 yeah we're looking at
about 495 thousands across so we are almost at a half inch it has more than
doubled its diameter and that's pretty impressive let's see what the 200-yard
one looks like this has mushroomed quite a bit more than what we got with the 55
grain let's see what kind of so we're looking at 435 thousand for 25
it looks like 435 is our maximum dimension so if you want to get those
hogs coyotes or deer at some of those longer distances I think this one's
gonna be a little bit of a better match I think that overall the 55 s are going
to be a little better for home defense since that's gonna actually come to rest
a little bit sooner in the gel it's gonna dump all its energy a little bit
more quickly and come to rest but I think this one's gonna be better for
those hunting scenarios let's see how much metal we lost at a hundred yards
this was a 62 grain projectile it's now 60 1.6 so it may have sheared off just a
little bit from the tips of some of the petals not a big deal and then at 200
yards 61.3 so yeah we may have lost just a tiny bit there could be some variation
in the original weights of these projectiles I will say one thing this was a little
bit harder to get on target than some of the others this is the one that I had
the biggest difficulty actually hitting the target with you can see my test
group for this I did have what seemed to be good
ballistics worked up on this the velocities overall were actually quite
tight so we're looking at a mean of 26 38 feet per second and then a standard
deviation of velocity of less than 12 so that's actually looking quite tight on
these and you know I did Satterlee kind of load up but this one was a little bit
wonky when I was firing it it was it was kind of going all over the place and
the Satterlee test and it was kind of tough to tell which one of these that I
should grab based on velocities it looks like I nailed one pretty well but it's
it's precision here on paper as you can see is quite a bit larger than some of
these others just you know across both axes this looks like it's about the same
height as the this the 55 grain gold dots which I mean heck it's still coming
in less than two inches at 100 yards which is gonna be quite nice you know
for this kind of lighter weight AR that we have yeah we're looking at about two
inches there and this one's going across both ways but this was the hardest one
to make that they hit with out at those distances so I did have to take quite a
few attempts to get on target I'm gonna continue to work this up and I'm gonna
see if I can maybe change some of the things about this maybe I can use a
little bit of a different powder or maybe I can change my my overall length
put the projectile in a little bit further push it push it out a little bit further
and see if I can start to tighten this up just a little bit but as you can see
it's it's totally functional but as far as some of the others go this one was
the one that kind of opened up the most in the next video we'll take a look at
the 75 s these did perform very well in the gel and they also did turn in some
very good groups so we're gonna check that out in the next one and see exactly
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two a month these kind of tests coming remember that
we have 350 legend and 458 SOCOM coming up yeah if you just can chip in a buck
or two then you can help us out here thank you to Sportman's Guide and Stan
and Mary at the 338 Lapua Magnum level and Joseph Davies and Peter at the 300
Win Mag level you guys rock I'll see you guys around
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