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Can anyone help identify the make of this bullet. If so, please also try show a link to the resource



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Posts: 441 | Location: Randfontein, South Africa | Registered: 07 January 2008Reply With Quote
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Looks very similar to the impala bullets.

http://impalabullets.co.za/
 
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I also first thought so, but the pics of the Impala bullets have 3 grooves and no distict boat-tail?

BTW this one is a .375 cal


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Can anyone help identify the make of this bullet. If so, please also try show a link to the resource



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The GS Custom FN design - The faster you drive them, the better they get. The left and middle bullets were fired from a 375 H&H rifle at 3000 and 2700 fps into wet sand. Note the progressive compression from front to rear compared to the unfired bullet at right.


I believe it to be an early GS Custom with the wider driving bands! The picture above comes from their website .

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I don't believe this to be a GS Custom bullet, GS has the "bands" on the outside and recessed like this sample!
 
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Could it be someone's home made bullet?

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Isn't it a Peregrine bullet, Stephen? VRG-2 if copper or VRG-1 if brass.
www.peregrinebullets.com
They are made in Pretoria and were launched at Zimbi Guns last Saturday.
 
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Could it be someone's home made bullet?

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My guess exactly - nonetheless lathe made brass mono.

Closest I guess are Bridger bullets. Here are ones I used back in 06 - FN and BT are alike, shank/groove part is different - tho it (mine or the one displayed) might be a prototype of kind...

 
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Gents,

thanks for the answers so far, but I don't believe we've found it yet?

It is of rather serious urgency.....


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Isn't it a Peregrine bullet, Stephen? VRG-2 if copper or VRG-1 if brass.
www.peregrinebullets.com
They are made in Pretoria and were launched at Zimbi Guns last Saturday.


Peregrine bullets have four bands, plus a "band" ahead of a boattail.

http://www.peregrinebullets.co...54-vrg2416340-3.html

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Obturation is achieved at the rear boat-tail with an accurate machined seating surface.


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Gents,

thanks for the answers so far, but I don't believe we've found it yet?

It is of rather serious urgency.....


Stephan,

What is the story? Looks like it is in a forensic evidence bag

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Is it not the Frontier Phalanx bullet made in Stilfontein, North West Province?
 
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What detracts from the Phalanx 7 Perrigrine is the straight taper from the forward band towards the front flat.
Pics off both websites suggest a slight ogive on those two?

Carl, all I can say at this stage is Mmmmm....


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Come now, we have been in suspenders long enough?? Cool
 
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I dare to claim that this is not a factory made bullet sold on an open market.

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Could it be someone's home made bullet?

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Quite some SA guys bake them at home.

What was it - poached Rhyno?
 
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What detracts from the Phalanx 7 Perrigrine is the straight taper from the forward band towards the front flat.
Pics off both websites suggest a slight ogive on those two?

Carl, all I can say at this stage is Mmmmm....


The bullet in the evidence bag looks more like copper in the driving band area, but the glare on the bag makes the nose look like brass.
It is obscured by the evidence bag and could be tarnished or have a patina acquired while lying about after recovery?

Recovery from what?

Riflecrank Internationale Permanente can only say that it has some design features of the old Bridger Bullet of about a decade ago.
A serious hobbyist made these as a sideline, whether at his regular business on idle machine time, or at home in the garage.

Here are from top to bottom,
.375/300gr Brass FN
.375/270gr Brass FN
.375/300gr Copper FN:



Band structure is not same as evidence bullet, but the copper one has a bit of boat tail and the cutting edge leading at the base of the rebated truncated cone Flat Nose.

Bridgers are as close as I can come.
Maybe a different one of the Bridger iterations.
Maybe a similar production of another hobbyist.

Have you considered gas-chromatographic/mass-spectrometric analysis of the trace impurities to track it to origin of the rod it was turned from, then who bought that rod? Wink
 
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I really does look like an SSK Industries early bullet, from JD Jones. Michael458 knows them well.


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