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Re: ideas to capture bullets w/o damage

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17 December 2004, 14:03
rugerjoe
Re: ideas to capture bullets w/o damage
My uncle built a long open top box and filled it with wet newspapers. It seemed to work quite will, and you can pick up all those junk papers around the neighborhood!!
17 December 2004, 17:44
Leftoverdj
Styrofoam, Tim?

Maybe a foot to slow the bullet down and then alternating sheets of foam and cardboard?
17 December 2004, 15:16
trk
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Well, my previous post on this got lost in the ozone.

Load a few grains of Red Dot, and shoot into some rags. You don't need full velocity to capture a bullet.



But what's the challange in that? It's too easy!
17 December 2004, 19:15
HenryC470
Be careful about using a swimming pool. I shot my 10/22 into 7 or 8 feet of water (however deep our pool was*) and recovered mushroomed bullets.

H. C.

*I was 18 at the time. I want to emphasize that I know better now and had better not catch any 18-year old child of mine doing something so stupid, so they'd better do it while I'm at work and not get caught.
18 December 2004, 03:51
felix
I use the swimming pool, and it works only when a boolit just drops out of the barrel, say 2 grains of BE with toilet paper against the powder. Shoot at a 45 degree angle to further help against frontal expansion/distortion. The boolits will easily go to 12 feet with gusto, even with this low of a charge. ... felix
18 December 2004, 01:19
trk
As a teenager I used to shoot all kinds of rifles into the pond to stop the boolets. They'd mushroom too, but not on the bottom - hitting the water was enough. Only took about 4 to 6 feet of water.

On the other hand, at our local community college, the tank for collecting (pistol) boolets has been dented (with my TC in .430jdj) with a reduced load). It was a 4x4x4 cube filled with water. Hard cast doesn't mushroom much on water entry.
18 December 2004, 03:48
Bug
How about an open 55 gal. drum, filled with water? shoot into it from a ladder, or off the house. Not deep enough? weld two together, end-to-end. Water will cause bullets to expand, though, if the bullet's velocity is high enough.
17 December 2004, 13:22
Lloyd Smale
like trk said the best ive found is snow.
19 December 2004, 06:39
DE Hillyer
Hi All! many good ideas... I have a copy of 'The Bullets Flight'...but who did I loan that to?....Hmmm..I'm old enough to know better....

I really need a setup to do maybe 100's of bullets. I'd like to do a 'load data'/velocity/group size/bullet inspection/digital picture of fired bullets.... for several loads. This just to satisfy my natural curosity about bullet design....

Will we have to take up golf if it becomes boring....?