This is the bullet I should test.
It's to left Swift A-Frame 120 gr, Partizan 140 gr, Woodleight 140 gr, Oryx 140 gr and Remington SP 120 gr.




I check the speed for evry bullet


And I write all technical data for every bullet.



I use dry phone book to shoot in, and it's a very hard load for a bullet to be shot like this.



Result after I found my bullet inside this phone books.


4 bullet up is Swift A-Frame 120 gr to left and 140 gr to right.
Down to left its 3 Woodleight bullet and to right its 4 Partizan.
Oryx and Remington bullet was too destroy to find any big part of the bullets.

Rifle I use is a customer made in caliber .264winmag

For all my shot I used Federal 215 magnum percussion cap. I used N160 powder and 56,5 grains for 140 grains bullet, and 59,5 grains for 120 grains bullet.
140 grains bullet gave a speed about 2900 fps and 120 grains bullet gave a spedd about 3200 fps.

From this small test its no doubt for me, Swift A-Frame is one of the world best bullet

While I laud your eforts in testing the bullets, dry phone books are one of the worst test mediums you can ever use. They don't give you an ideal projection of what a bullet is or is not capable of. If you PM me, I will share with you the method I have used for years. It works and is a good reflection of what one can expect on game. It's a lengthy description, so instead of typing it up here, PM me and I'll be glad to share it with you.

If your fingers are willing I'd like to hear what test mediums you prefer and why.
I've been using deer lately and wouldn't mind recovering a bullet or two.

Thanks for sharing, but BobbyT is right, dry paper is very hard on bullets. Soak the books thoroughly next time. I have found that really wet phone books or newsprint will expand a bullet very close to the ones I have recovered from game. Penetration is about 2/3 of what you get in a big game animal, but if you want to see what a bullet will do, especially compared to other bullets, it works great. Rule of thumb, if it blows up in wetpack it probably does on muscle, definetly bone w/ shallow penetration. If it expands well & penetrates deep, it will probably hold together for more difficult angled shots on game.


Bullet on left from wetpack IV app. 2650fps, center unfired .338/210grNP, bullet on right from Kudu bull taken @ 120yds, IV app. 2600fps. Looks pretty close to me. Penetration in wetpack app. 18" in the kudu app. 28".

My testing setup is rather complicated to explain, but in short, it consists of a repeating assembly of 1" wet newsprint and 1-inch air pocket. On the very first facing, there's also a sheet of 1/8th" paneling material (rather soft), and every 5th facing is fronted & backed by a square of 100 percent cotton material (basically worn T-shirt). At the very back, an area where not-too-many bullets make it to, is a compression of shredded cotton garments, lightly dampened, to collect those stubborn, non-expanding bullets that punch right on through everything else.

I've tried everything from sawdust-silt mixtures to phonebooks to what-have-you, and this set-up, which I have used since 1985 or so, seems to give the closest parallel to performance on game -- although NOTHING is the same as flesh and blood. I've hunted a good while with handguns, and back then, precious little info was readily available. So I came up with my own means of testing to assess the performance of bullets in cartridges such as the TCUs, BRs, JDJs along with a host of lesser-known wildcats.

I used a box stacked with dry magazines and shot into them from 10 to 100 yards. I found it really cleared out the softer bullets in a hurry as most of them like the speer BT ( 4" of penitration and nothing bigger than bird shot ). I settled on the X-bullets, A frames and partitions for most of my hunting from this test and so far have never recovered a bullet from one single bear yet and only one was not shot dirrectly through the shoulder bone. That bear was shot straight on and the bullet ( AFrame) penitrated 3 1/2 feet before exiting. True that water in the paper will create a more fleshlike response to the bullet usually causing more expantion but in the case of the X or Partion, they will only expand so much so ( in my opinion) you gain little more knowledge than with dry paper. The AFrame however will expand more under hydrolic stress even more with high velovity, but its still better than using a Ballistic tip.

Not looking to tick anybody off by agreeing with him, but I like this form of test.... for this type bullet anyway.

I had only few bullet left to take new test, but today I trying to shoot through wet paper. The last paper book was not wet, but only a bit moist.

I shot two Woodleght bullet and two Partizan bullet, and they look better now after this test.

Partizan bullet



Woodlegiht

I've used deer to test my 260 et al and Barnes X or TSX. I must be doing something wrong, recovered only one bullet -- that one passed the LENGTH of a big buck -- seems my bullets failed. On the bright side, there were 18 one-shot-kills of said test media.