alright guys play time is over 350 legend has been a lot of fun
I love the cartridge but now it's time for the big boy 458 SOCOM this is a rock
river upper and this has a Bushnell prime optic on top if you are wondering
how one of these little scopes can handle really harsh recoil there you go
this thing is still ticking and it's doing awesome but yeah today we're
bringing the pain with 458 SOCOM we're gonna see what these do these are my
hand loads Starline brass Magnum primers back here
Hodgdon H110 and a 350 grain hot cor projectile from Speer these are huge mamma-
jammas in it this rifle really kicks when fired through here so I'm going to
get the help of some sandbags down on the ground firing this in the prone is
no fun but let's see what we can do at 100 and 200 yards
you guys could see what I could not I figured I kept missing it looks like I
hit it three times I finally saw the one down below this bottom one right here
that's more center mass I had to aim pretty low to hit these but I figured
since I was tearing the snot out of my sandbag back here that I must be missing
this is kind of similar to the 223 tracks except that it just keeps going
so we're looking at about an inch to an inch and a half at the widest and it
just keeps on going and yeah the fury of 458 SOCOM cannot be contained by the
ballistics gel one of the reasons why I'm perfectly happy with this is that
it's still producing lots of damage this is quite messy not as big a mess in
these tracks as the the 350 legend with some of those especially the Winchester
XP those deer season projectiles oh my gosh those things really tore it up but this
is a nice heavy hit big thump big mess and then somewhere in here hopefully are
the projectiles you can see this is all torn up it's going to take me a little bit to
sift through here and find the projectiles but looking good 100 yards
you
at 200 yards 458 SOCOM only manages to carve about a 3/4 inch wide channel you
can see it right here and it just kind of cruises along and cuts this sort of
channel for a very long time this performs very differently from some of
the others that tend to open up very quickly dump a lot of energy and then
maybe settle down and cruise out this one just continues to cut this channel
all the way through both blocks and then comes to rest inside the bag the sheer
energy that we're dealing with with 458 SOCOM the kind of energy that propels
this through 32 inches of ballistics gel and and slams it into sand makes it a
little bit difficult to figure out exactly what was going on how much of
this damage was caused by sand how much of this was from the gel I suspect that
this is a 100 yard hit on gel and then it has expanded pretty well and then
crashed into the sand and made maybe some changes I am not exactly sure you
can see that this is just huge so we were looking at a you know 458 diameter
projectile to begin with and let's see what this ended up at okay this is point six
to eight 0.65 zero so yeah this this has mushroomed a good bit now keep in mind
that those 350 legend loads that we had some of them opened up to nearly the
same width using that smaller projectile so it's kind of impressive on that end but
then you know the fact that this one just carried straight through and would
not stop that's pretty wild let's see how much retain weight we have this used
to be a 350 grain projectile and it is now two eighty four point five so this shed
bits somewhere definitely not in the gel I didn't see anything in there so it
must have lost it in the sand and then you have this guy right here not exactly
sure what happened with this one maybe it tumbled I have no idea but this one
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