With the help of Terry my photos are below.

[ 10-05-2002, 17:32: Message edited by: Ed ]

Ed,

Try this for some info.

http://www.serveroptions.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=2;t=002524

Or email them to me and I will post them for you.

Regards,

Terry

[ 10-05-2002, 05:57: Message edited by: T.Carr ]

Ed,

Here are your pictures and description.

The load went 2670 fps from my FN Mauser, left to right:
In and out of a kudu bull and into an unseen kudu cow that ran by behind the standing bull at 120 yards. Bullet recovered under the off side skin of the cow after passing through a shoulder on the bull and exiting into the shoulder of the cow. The second bullet went into the left rear ham of a bushbuck at 60 yards penetrating the length of the body and recovered under the skin in the throat. The third went in a bit high on an eland bull's shoulder at 25 yards and was recovered under the skin on the off side. This was the final shot after wounding it with a poorly placed shot (low in the chest at 170 yards). The fourth went into the quartering shoulder of a gemsbuck bull at 40 yards and was recovered under the skin on the off side. Recovered weights were 250 grs except for the eland's which lost two petals and went 221 grs. In all, excellent performance and the animals just dropped at these shots.





Regards,

Terry

Your one lucky guy to recover that many Barnes X bullet, I never can, they always go through every thing I shoot...but I shoot the 286 gr. i am going to try the 250 gr. GS monolithic this year on elk.

I recently read an article in Man Magnum that indicated you still need bullet weight in the monolithics to get two holes and apparantly your experience with them varifies that..I am also told that with monolithics if one pushes them fast enough that you will get more penitration..that also applies to North Fork bullets, drive them faster for more penitration..These new monolithics and half monolithics soldered with lead fronts have added a whole new deminsion of rules..

Nice bullets, the worst thing about exit wounds is one never gets a pretty expanded bullet!!

Ray,

I had a half dozen other bullets fully penetrate my other animals. Note that these I recovered had either penetrated a pretty extreme path, like the kudu bull before the cow that I recovered it from or 3' of bushbuck at close range or hit a pretty tough critter dead on the shoulder at short range like the eland and gemsbuck. All almost exited as they were found just under the skin. Mt first shot on the eland at 170 yards fully penetrated the lower front of the chest. I was also impressed by the wound channels and exit holes on those where full penetration occurred, even on a springbuck as 200 yards the bullet was apparently expanding well. Fun stuff.

Ed,
I will be trying the 265 gr. GS HV in a 375 on elk in a week or so.

I had good luck with the North Fork softs in Africa, they sure kill well and I got a lot of bullets recovered and not many exited but a talk with North Fork told me that if I wanted two holes to simply drive them faster...I was at 2350 with a 416, and thats too slow for North Forks..apparantly 2500 to 2600 is what it takes to get complete penitration and an exit...

This seems to apply to all the monolithics and half monolithics from all I can gather from talking to the producers...Interresting, as it changes the whole picture of bullet choice and velocity from what we have been taught about conventional bullets....

Ed,
I will be trying the 265 gr. GS HV in a 375 on elk in a week or so.

I had good luck with the North Fork softs in Africa, they sure kill well and I got a lot of bullets recovered and not many exited but a talk with North Fork told me that if I wanted two holes to simply drive them faster...I was at 2350 with a 416, and thats too slow for North Forks..apparantly 2500 to 2600 is what it takes to get complete penitration and an exit...

This seems to apply to all the monolithics and half monolithics from all I can gather from talking to the producers...Interresting, as it changes the whole picture of bullet choice and velocity from what we have been taught about conventional bullets....