show your recoverd bullets!

[SuperCub]

Think so but scarcer now and lots more $$ than they used to be - now $45. Last I bought were from Wholesale Sports. They still list them but I can't say if that means they have them in stock. However don't go by the website pic (loaded ammo box). Use drop down menus to find them. You want the 200 SP not the PSP (pointed soft point) - which you know already I think.

h ttp://ca.wholesalesports.com/storefront/reloading/bullets/rifle-bullets/prod107335.html

Thanks ... Funny the bulk bullets are more expensive than the Hornady boxed.


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[Northern Boater]

250 gr sierra BTSP, from 375 H&H recovered from a moose at 120 yrds. Bullet retained 236 grs, bullet was under hide also hit hard enough to knock a piece of rib through the exit side about 4" long. Hardest I have seen a moose go down with a lung shot.

 

[hunter7mmRM]

250 gr sierra BTSP, from 375 H&H recovered from a moose at 120 yrds. Bullet retained 236 grs, bullet was under hide also hit hard enough to knock a piece of rib through the exit side about 4" long. Hardest I have seen a moose go down with a lung shot.

awesome to see! i have these bullets loaded right now, but have not shot anything with them yet.

 

[Noel]

9,3 270gr Speer. 140yds through both shoulder blades and stopped under the hide.

30 cal.165gr Hornady SP. broadside hit through a deer head at 200yds. Jacket recovered just inside where the jaw joint used to be.

375cal 300gr Hornady RN put in the head of a Steer point blank, head on. Stopped two vertabrae back of the skull. 38/55

7mm 154gr Hornady SP. Varying ranges from 70 to 320yds recovered from Elk ,Moose and Whitetail.

 

[trykillthis]

So this is the first bullet I have recovered. Deer don't stop em. But a bear did yesterday. 15 yd shot, quartering towards, went in through neck/collarbone, stopped at bottom of ribs against the hide on the opposite side.

300 win mag, 180 gr tsx, recovered weight 180 gr. Expanded perfectly, looks like one of the advertisements. This just confirms why I like these bullets.

 

[regulate34]

wow some nice mushrooms. everything i have shot the bullet from my 30-06 was long gone leaving a 2" exit hole. thats 165g sst

 

[mbogo3]

failed Hornady's top 286gr SP 9.3x62 hit cow moose in shoulder blade and shed core.Next 180gr from a .308 Norma Mag at 3000 fps hit frontal chest of mulie doe at 100 yards penetrated a yard of flesh and falied to expand? I used Hornadys for 30 years but have lost faith.They won't admit to changing the bullet jackets just state" this is the first failure we've heard of"............several of my hunting buddies has had the same results along with calls to head office.....same circle jerk..also have early Barnes X bullets that never opened...Harold

 

[leveractionjunkie]

failed Hornady's top 286gr SP 9.3x62 hit cow moose in shoulder blade and shed core.Next 180gr from a .308 Norma Mag at 3000 fps hit frontal chest of mulie doe at 100 yards penetrated a yard of flesh and falied to expand? I used Hornadys for 30 years but have lost faith.They won't admit to changing the bullet jackets just state" this is the first failure we've heard of"............several of my hunting buddies has had the same results along with calls to head office.....same circle jerk..also have early Barnes X bullets that never opened...Harold

In which part of the animals death did these two bullets fail? Or did you have to use a few follow up shots that you shouldn't have needed? Just wondering.

 

[bobjoe]

In which part of the animals death did these two bullets fail? Or did you have to use a few follow up shots that you shouldn't have needed? Just wondering.

All had follow up shots. The top bullet didn't even go through the shoulder if I remember right. A 286 gr bullet from a 9.3x62 should not act like a varmit grenade. I have had 338 bullets do the same thing on a deer jacket and core went different ways and took several hours just to find the deer to make a finishing shot.

 

[Bigbubba]

225 gr Nosler partition from a .338 win mag - shoulder shot on a moose at about 200m

It's about 95% still there and double in diameter

 

[Dogleg]

Sometimes they work as planned, sometimes they don't.

 

[mmattockx]

This was recovered from the second deer I shot in my first season of big game hunting in 2009. The ammo used was Federal blue box 6.5x55 140gr SP. Range was ~85yds, a running broadside shot on a medium sized whitetail doe. The bullet entered just behind the near side front leg, blew apart the lungs and stopped under the far side shoulder blade (not sure if that is the correct description or not). The doe piled up as her front hooves hit the ground, DRT with not another step taken.

Mark

 

[horseshoe]

Of the blacktail deer and black bear I've shot between 30 and 250 yards, with blue box Federal 30-06 loads, I've yet to recover a bullet.

Does it happen often?

I've also never recovered a bullet. Always clean through and through...

 

[redrider]

I found my bag of recovered bullet.
The top three are 105gr hunting VLD after passing through a deer ribs and ending up in the far shoulder.They were bang flops, from 75yd to 230yd out of a .243 at 3050fps.
The bottom is a 100gr Nosler partition after going through a 1/2" plywood target and ending up on top of the snow. 2900fps

The last one is a .22lr through the same target..

 

[Finger Toes]

Sierra Game King

 

[Sakonut]

Sierra Game King

Oooooohhh...I see whatcha did there...

 

[archie_james_c]

failed Hornady's top 286gr SP 9.3x62 hit cow moose in shoulder blade and shed core.Next 180gr from a .308 Norma Mag at 3000 fps hit frontal chest of mulie doe at 100 yards penetrated a yard of flesh and falied to expand? I used Hornadys for 30 years but have lost faith.They won't admit to changing the bullet jackets just state" this is the first failure we've heard of"............several of my hunting buddies has had the same results along with calls to head office.....same circle jerk..also have early Barnes X bullets that never opened...Harold

Its funny, I threw a 225 grn Interbond into a dinky calf Moose last year at about 30 yards via a 338 Federal. The bullet hit the shoulder joint and exploded.

 

[Boomer]

Some recovered .375/270 gr Hornadys that were downloaded for small game

Damage similar to a .22 LR

The .510/570 gr X that was recovered from my African buffalo beside a .375/270 XLC for scale

The wonderful .375/380 Rhino . . .
How it expands:

Results of a close range test between the 380 gr Rhino on the right and a 270 gr XLC and a 300 gr X. I could make the Xs fail (note the loss of petals) but not the Rhino which produced 3X the wound volume.

 

[Dogleg]

Just in case someone tells you that Hornady has finally made a decent dangerous game soft. This was a .450 Nitro Express made it halfway through a buffs neck. Sadly, its typical.

 

[captonion]

I don't have many recovered bullets...Here is 240gr Win hollow point 44mag recovered from a buck quartering away...I have a 25-06 recovered from a moose sitting on the window sill of the camp I with take a pic of when I go in next..