Caliber .375, recovered weight 190 to 220 gr. Seem to be a copper jacketed solid, with a copper core. Pieces of jacket recovered.

Found lying on the ground by the target in the quarry where we sight our rifles, close to camp, so they probably come from a client's rifle.

But good solids do not lie in the dirt after being shot... And certainly should not look like that!

Anyone has an idea of what they could be?

The hole in the base reminds me of Swift A-Frames, but those have a bonded lead core.

George

I'm with George - SAF if a soft point. The solid that comes to mind that has a hole in the bottom is the old Speer African Grand Slam with Tungsten core.

I am quite certain that its Swift A-Frames.. I have seen that look of them many many times when shot at high vel into game or when they are found in the dirt bank on the shooting range..

Swift A Frames you can tell by the bulge behind the expansion, and the hole in the rear and oh my the seem to have slipped the core!! naughty.

Yes, they do look like Swift A Frames and if shot into the side of a Quarry then I'd say that's not a bad result of a fast moving Soft bullet.

Checked more closely, and what I mistook for a copper core is actually the copper partition, "punched" out by the lead core behind. And the red of the core seen through the hole in the base is just the red of the laterite dust that got embedded on it... I had not thought of a partitioned soft. Thanks.

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Originally posted by Philip A.:
But good solids do not lie in the dirt after being shot..

Ever heard of the wind blowing the dirt away fro the bullets or rain washing it away? LOL, we find 600 Nitro Woodys laying on top of the dirt after winter snows leave.
Still shootable too!

Same with arrow heads, when it rains you start finding them...nothing stays burried forever, it all surfaces sooner or later, even aunt Matilda, will surface sometime in the future I suspect.

Those are Swift A Frames. The front lead core is bonded to the jacket.
The lead in the rear of the bullet is not bonded to the jacket.
Sometimes when shooting into rocks the rear core will pop out.

I have never had that happen on the bullets I have recovered from cape buff or eland.