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Tim Hamilton, the ballistic machinist, sent us some 50
Beowulf bullets to shoot out of a shotgun, so let's show you how we're gonna try to do this.
Now the bullet itself is made by Lehigh defense it's called an extreme penetrator
This one is normally for a 50 Beowolf rifle
Since the bullet is so much smaller than the bore of a 12-gauge shotgun. We'll need to put it in a Sabot here
we're using a
RSS 12 Sabo
Behind the saber will use this FS 12 gas seal made by Gualandi
Now the tricky part is always getting the powder load correct, so I loaded them with three different powder loads using long shot
I loaded three with 27 grains three with 30 grains and three with
35 grains. now since this is a bullet type Sabot shell
We're gonna have to shoot him out of a fully rifle shotgun. Danny's rifled barrel has a 1 in 36 inch twist rate
But you may be asking yourself
What would happen if we shot these out of a rifled choke tube would that be enough to get these spinning, let's look
Okay, 50 yard
I'm ready
Hit it. That was fast too. Yeah
No delay. While there was a small amount of spin on the bullet. It. Just wasn't enough for stability just tumbled like crazy
The .50 Beowulf rifle uses a 1 in 20 inch twist rate so as one in 36 gonna
Be enough for these? let's find out
27 grains long shot
Okay, I'm ready.
For the first shot Danny was aiming at the center of that sticker on the jug.
As you can see the bullet flew a little bit high
Oddly enough we don't see a lot of cavitation from this bullet at this velocity
In fact it was extremely weak compared to Tim's brass pellet slug that we showed in the last video
27 grain low power test
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And we seem to be getting enough spin stabilization from that one in 36 inch
twist rate of the shotgun barrel and these bullets weigh about 22 grams
And we've noticed that lighter
Projectiles tend to shoot a little higher while we would have liked to have gotten a hit on the thickest part of the pin
it's still managed to go through three and a quarter inches of that pin and
It exited without any damage at all to the bullet. That's pretty good with a low power shot.
Okay 27 grain
Is it adjusting for the uh
Ballistics
Aiming at the orange dot whenever you're ready
Now if anything we are seeing consistency here, they're consistently flying high
So Danny is making minor adjustments with each shot
To bring his point of impact down to where he wants it
Figure out where these things, where the point of impact is on these things
yeah, at this range it just seems to be about three inches high so my
Point aim was right in here
Yeah, 27 grains it didn't have enough oomph
to go through that plate
Almost made it almost made it okay. That would see how 30 grains of long shot does
Now you may have noticed that the shotgun was a little louder the recoil was a little greater
And that's with only three grains more powder that's 0.19 grams more powder.
The bullet in this shot was not as stable
It was kind of yawing around a little bit, but it had a lot more power at least enough to
Fully penetrate that lead plate
Okay, it still went to the thick
area actually penetrated that time
shooting a little high
different powder load, different ballistics, different results
Flip it over and try with the 35 yeah, yeah, that's
Backside looks here right through pretty clean. Yep
Okay, now 35 grains of long shot versus lead. I don't think I'll have any problem
Going through it
But will the point of aim change that much?
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Now that felt about right.
With 35 grains of long shot we're getting closer to the actual velocities of a 50 beowulf rifle which on average is about
1,800 plus feet per second
Hopefully when Tim does his test with these he'll run them over a chronograph to get some more solid information as far as velocities go
Okay, what's what? Yeah ended up a little bit to the left
But so they'd see it comparison and damage though three powder loads. significantly more
Yeah, okay. Where's the first one the first shot is 27 first shot here, okay?
Second shot here, and it passed through
Third shot here passed through bigger hole look just open that thing up now flip it around
Okay
Yea it threw chunks of lead all over the table on that one.
think it's time to recast that I think you think the 35 was the
Felt the best or whatever? The 35 felt like it should feel. Yeah, I think I know what you mean
As far as the recoil and mm-hmm and all feel like?
The others felt kind of whimpy compared to the 35, okay
So 35 maybe 40
Tim will probably put 50 grains and these things
But we want to see how it does over the whole spectrum
You know how the bullet behaves at different velocities and everything it seems to be doing pretty well
30 grains
magazines
Extreme penetrator hell, I don't think It'll have any problem going through it, but let's try it hit it
Now if you remember the first 30 grain shot that we took at the lead plate was a little bit wobbly
This one's a lot more solid much more stable in flight
Alright, so you're a little a little bit left
Yeah, we suck
We're not sure where these are landing yet
You know it takes a few a bunch of shots to figure out that so find out in slow-mo
How they're flying. Yeah, yeah, if they're right wobbling or anything?
My point I am was about here
Impact here how's the exit wound? exit wound?
Okay, I wouldn't want it to be me full penetration there
Okay now highest power load 35 grains
With a 35 grain load we see good stability. We see a lot more damage 35 grains seems to be
Very close to the right powder load for these particular bullets
35 grains
Some reason that gun shooting consistently low left left us yeah
Got to please all of them yep
Okay
Probably shared the exit wound with the other one so flip it around oh
Yeah, well a little different a little different bigger bigger exit. That was the first exit down here second exit here
Yeah, definitely a little more damage. Yep it blew confetti all over the ground. Yes, when didn't yeah?
And we'll probably see it exiting out the back and tumbling away you know but
Okay fifty yards 30 grain, right?
Yup
So far all the shots were taken it at about ten yards. This is 50 yards
Again the bullets flying high this time about 12 inches high
Of course if you loaded all your shells exactly the same
You'd eventually be able to sight in your shotgun so that you'd able to hit exactly where you wanted to hit
Right after this shot Danny. Took a shot with a 1 ounce foster slug a heavier slug and
that
impacted right in the center of the chest
Okay, we get the ballistic loaf up there
Special thanks to ballisticloaf.com, okay, 35 grain load
On the back of all these bullets I put little markings. That's why it looks kind of funky
There as it impacted the gel there wasn't a great amount of cavitation
So I'm really hoping that when Tim does his test he's going to really
just max out the powder on these things and see what these things can actually do all right how to do to the
ballistic loaf yeah again I
Aimed it a little bit low right?
Point of aim was about here
point of impact again high left
See the little X mark, I'm good of an x mark
Went through no problem, It's good-looking gel there. Kind of bubbly you know a manatee flesh
Bubbly oak or something
All right, let's hopefully we get some good information and ballistic data from that stuff. Yeah.
I Hope you guys enjoyed that little journey through this ballistic testing of these lehigh defense extreme penetrator bullets
We have a couple different other types of lehigh bullets that we're gonna be testing both in 50 Cal
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