This bullet was recovered from an oak log which it had penetrated about 6" into. speed was 2300fps V0
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I hope anyone of you can use this. That is why it has been posted, anyway.

Niels, did you weigh the bullet? I'd be curious to see what it retained.

I have several that look just like it that I have shot into oak. But I find that wood keeps bullets togather rather than breaking them apart.

I have several that I recovered out of my winter back stop a big snow bank. About 30 percent lost their cores in snow.

I gues I would not be afraid of using these on most anything if I were going to shoot elepants or capebuff I would buy a tougher bullet.

Performance looks pretty good they would make a fine pig/deer bullet and pretty well everything other than dg

Yes, wood is pretty forgiving on bullets, so I don't value it much for a medium.

The bullet weighed 277gr. after it was fired into the oak.

I agree. there is still no use for these bullets when it comes to dangerous toughskinned game, but someone at this forum asked about magtips for Lion... Looking at this recovered bullet I would say why not. It seems to be as good as "Lionload". I will test it on moose sometime this fall and maybe an eland or a Zebra. What ever large thinskinned that comes to me first..

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Originally posted by Whitworth:
Niels, did you weigh the bullet? I'd be curious to see what it retained.

Niels and Whitworth,

I thought I would chime in as I've tested the Speer MagTip .416" bullet rather thouroughly right along with premium .416" bullets.

I've attached a photo below of three Speer .416-350gr MagTips in three different tests with results...............

While wood may hold the "pieces" together into a "wad" it can attest to bullet toughness.... Note core soldered to shank from heat induced.

I quit snow banks when I found it would strip cores from everything not bonded.... Even Nosler Partition.....both front and REAR CORES!!

The only thing that has caused the 350gr Speer .416 to shed its core for me is a frozen gravel pile. A mix of pea gravel and ice..... Even the best of the best of the premiums give a gut-wrenching disappointment here however.



BigRx

Thanks BigRx,
I wondered what those looked like after they exited the bear. In other words I've never recovered one. This is one of the only Speer bullets I trust and I've heard from others who use it with great confidence as well.