Bullet went 30 yds

[B-78]

While cleaning the yard up before our last big dump of snow, I found an intact bullet laying on the lawn. It has marks on it from the rifling and soot from something being burnt behind it.
I live in a spot where I have a 400yd range in my back yard and can shoot 200yds from my walk out basement just by opening the door. I know the bullet came from me fire forming 25 06AI brass this winter.
I use my son's Tikka to form brass for my Cooper. All I have to do is neck size the brass fired in the Tikka to make it fit the Cooper which I then use for load development for hunting rounds.
I was just shooting into a tree this past winter as I didn't want to walk to the back stop and was not concerned about accuracy. I was using a starting load of 4198 with the 100gr bullets and WLRPs. Checked the tree and there was holes in it from other bullets hitting it. Nothing sounded different from any other rounds. Any body have any ideas what could of happened here? A unique find to say the least.

 

[Ashcroft]

Any chance that it bounced off that hard frozen tree?

 

[yomomma]

Primer only...?

Check your fired brass to see if there is one that stands out.

 

[9.3mauser]

delete

 

[saskgunowner101]

Any chance that the round was shot low, and simply petered itself out in the snow? That's normal around here, whether I shoot into a firewood log or into a snowbank. I must have about an 80% recovery rate of cast bullets here at 25 and 50 meters. You find them sitting there on the ground waiting to get picked up and recycled.

 

[stabby]

Sounds like a squib load to me.

 

[B]

Any chance that the round was shot low, and simply petered itself out in the snow? That's normal around here, whether I shoot into a firewood log or into a snowbank. I must have about an 80% recovery rate of cast bullets here at 25 and 50 meters. You find them sitting there on the ground waiting to get picked up and recycled.

I was wondering the same thing. I am finding lots of bullets just laying on top of the grass from my shooting over winter. Even just loose snow can slow down a big bullet in a fairly short distance.

 

[Cocked&Locked]

Any chance that the round was shot low, and simply petered itself out in the snow? That's normal around here, whether I shoot into a firewood log or into a snowbank. I must have about an 80% recovery rate of cast bullets here at 25 and 50 meters. You find them sitting there on the ground waiting to get picked up and recycled.

^^^ Yes. Two or three feet of snow will stop handgun bullets and lighter rifle loads.

 

[Ganderite]

In the spring I find intact bullets captured by snow drifts. You must have fired one low.

 

[tiriaq]

Snow does a remarkably good job of stopping bullets intact, even expanding ones. Observed this often when living in the North.

 

[B-78]

There is a chance that when it was -30 I just pointed the gun out the door and shot low. Not one brass looked like it didn’t form right so not a squib load.

 

[coleman1495]

I’d guess the snow slowed it down. I’ve found nearly perfect bullets that were stopped thanks to snow.

 

[Dogleg]

Snow is amazing in how it stops bullets, whether its on the flat or banks. I’m always picking them up in the yerd in the spring. Back in the pot they go, jacketed as well as cast.