I don't believe they just disapppear. When I did the high speed - high tin test, the next spring I did find a couple of the banana shaped bullets after the snow had melted. The farthest away I found was probably off to the side a good 35 feet. Which explained to me how I got a bullet in the ouside electrical box on the cabin.

oh defecation!

Here is what I think happened to the bullets: The rifling twist being akin to the threads on a #4 machine screw, really rev the bullet rotation up as it passes down the bore. Whether or not it rides the grooves all the way or not, doesn't matter, just the fact that the muzzle velocity is in the neighborhood of 2600 fps and a twist rate 1:7.8" makes for something like 300,000 rpms (help me felix).

Now, a strong JACKETED bullet, when puked out of the barrel at this amazing rate of speed/rpms is able to withstand the tremendous torque factors, but that bare assed nekkid cast bullet flies out like a string of limp spaghetti or limp something else..it just don't point straight ahead any longer after it leaves the hole...of the barrel.

It is the rotational torque, my friends, that bends and sends, your bullets away.

I am going to write a book one day, think I'll call it "The Book of Jumptrap" and pass on the bits of wisdom I have learned and failed to learn along the way, bound to be a best seller. HAR! C'mon fellers, you're smart enough to figure out why those bullets are bent..hell it's just horse sense. You ought to know better than try to shoot a damned cast bullet down a fast twist barrel in the first place....."Rhubarb, hit ain't gonna work!"

Enjoyed the post Jump. Put me down BTW for a copy of the book. Do I get a pre-publication price?

Count me in the 'NOT' category.

Anyone have a copy of Lee's 'manual'? Post the results he wrote on shooten in the swimming pool with ever increasing chgs of shotgun powder-- paragraphing, please.

Anyone got a swimming pool NOT frozen and a Swede??

aladin,

you know it was all said 'tongue in cheek'. prepub price?

reckon it'd bring 50 cents a copy? probably be on Half-price.com within a week. har har har!

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Fell otta the wrong side this morn Kelly?

Didn't see anyone sides Jump speaking to rotational speeds. Sorry if I missed your posting if you did.

Where's your proof? Prove it's rotational forces.. Me and maybe Veral wanna know. Just for us dummies...

I agree with Jump. I also agree with what oldfeller said about aladin. I have got to the point of not posting much because it seems this has become aladins forum. Maybe you shoulld write a book aladin. All I know is that all these years I've had fun shooting both condoms and cast and I have had many remarkable groups with cast with very ordinary guns, but back to topic. I remember on the old shooters we got into a discussion about how much energy there is in the rotational force of a bullet especially when it hits a target or animal. I started it by saying when I got my first HBAR AR15 Colt with the 1/7 twist that it didn't matter if I was shooting super explosive varmint bullet or issue 55 gr fmj Nam ammo when shooting praire dogs or groundhogs, they all had a very explosive effect. I noticed this at 100 yds not just only right up close. Was talking to a Sierra tech one and mentioned that and first thing he asked is if I had the 1/7 twist which I said yes. He said the extra spin makes alot of difference. Now I had been shooting along side some fellows that had 22-250's with the varmint bullets, and we all know the 22-250 is much faster, but yet my AR15 was blowing the animals up alot more then they were. Not too long ago Rick Jamison changed his tuned on rotation speed and has concluded that there is alot of energy stored in it and does release into the target. So if all this is true then hell no wonder a nakid 6.5 bullet bends after it gets out of the bore. Makes you wonder, too, how the gascheck stays on or being it's spinning so fast, how it departs without effecting the bullet much, or does it?

Joe