Test results-Super lightweight wadcutter for PPC

[misterzr]

So I started testing a super lightweight wadcutter bullet for PPC. My goal was to create a very low recoil combination for shooting PPC indoors. This was cast from a NOE mold and weighs 70gn and then coated with Hitek. First test was with 2.2 gn of Bullseye. This worked well up close but started dropping off at 25 yards. Settled on 2.5 gn of Bullseye that worked well up to 25 and still has good accuracy. The rounds shoot like a .22, still have to crono them but I suspect they are around 600fps. Need to adjust sights a bit as the lighter round shoots a bit higher than the 148gn WC I was using before.

 

[hatman1793]

Nice target. Looks like similar results I had with my 105 LEE 38 special bullet. Its the LEE mold # 90315. LEae lists it as a SWC but its more like a short wad cutter with a truncated cone on top.
A light powder charge pushed the nose through the paper first with the shoulder tearing the paper on the way through. Very similar to your wad cutter paper trail.

I tried the standard PPC 148grain powder load behind the 105 to see if it would make a clean hole. It didn't and 25 yard accuracy was about the same as yours. Nothin special...

 

[Roly]

I've been using the XMetal 100gr SWC with 2.1gr of WST pushing it with great success. The bullet is traveling at approx 700 fps and delivering solid X-ring accuracy at 50 yards. This also gives 40% less recoil then the old 148 HBWC loads with no smoke or leading.