RIP,

I have come into posession of a handful of the famous SuperPenetrator projectiles in .375 cal. Would you perchance be interested in testing some of them in the Iron Colon (was that the term??)?

Pls let me know.

i belive it was the iron buffalo but the iron colon would be suting as well cause all kinda sh*it gets blown out of it.

Iron colon is an appropriate name, since the only time one would ever NEED 6 plus feet of penetration is if one was shooting up the animal's colon to begin with.

ASS_CLOWN

Ignore on.

rip you do know i was just kidding with ya right.

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Originally posted by RIP:
Ignore on.

RIP,

You know they were only joking.

The Super-Penetrators came from me, and I (and I'm sure others too) would be very interested to see what happens to them in your Iron Buffalo.

Although with all the penetrating going on in your iron contraption, perhaps it should be renamed "Iron Vagina"?

Sorry guys, I am not looking to contract for more testing. I have a backlog now and too many other chores in life to add to the list right now. I am sure Norbert will give you the "poop" on that one.

The Iron Buffalo needs no other name, and the formula is very simple: 15/32" three-ply interior "cheap" plywood, 2.5 mil plastic trash compactor bag filled with water and compressed to 7.5" water thickness between boards, repeated over and over ad infinitum ...

One of these days I may get around to Norbert's SuperPenetrator, but I have more North Forks and Bridgers to go yet, so I will bug off on this one.

BTW, I really don't think they are going to be dramatically different than the GSC FN, Bridger Brass FN, or North Fork Copper FPS in the Iron Buffalo.

SD of 0.305 and velocity of 2500 to 2700 fps and any of the .375/300gr FN/FP solids will be the same in the IRON BUFFALO.

Go shoot some game with them. I promise you they are good enough, if Norbert Hansen had anything to do with them.

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Go shoot some game with them.

I have: Elephant hunt

I noticed that the penetration did not seem to be as straight as I would have thought on the ele and hippe head. Thus, my offer for you to try out a few of the bullets. Bear in mind that Norbert made the design, but doesn't manufacture the bullets, and therefore has no control over the material used to produce them. Perhaps the ones being produced now are a bit soft(?), and thus slightly bent, or was deformed a bit in the nose area when travelling thru the bone in the ele and hippo heads.

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Originally posted by RIP:

BTW, I really don´t think they are going to be dramatically different than the GSC FN, Bridger Brass FN, or North Fork Copper FPS in the Iron Buffalo.

SD of 0.305 and velocity of 2500 to 2700 fps and any of the .375/300gr FN/FP solids will be the same in the IRON BUFFALO.

RIP, you are right. An advantage of the Superpenetrator design with its protruding disk comes only into play with smaller meplats and/or tissue with limited water content.




Erik:

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I noticed that the penetration did not seem to be as straight as I would have thought on the ele and hippe head.

How did you measure that? It is only a small distance and, as I know, very difficult to judge.
The other comment is right.

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Originally posted by Norbert:

Erik:

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I noticed that the penetration did not seem to be as straight as I would have thought on the ele and hippe head.

How did you measure that? It is only a small distance and, as I know, very difficult to judge.
The other comment is right.

Norbert,

Although far from scientific, I noticed that the exit holes were not in line with the angles that the entry shots went in. So I stuck a long, pencil sized straight stick into the entry hole and exit hole. The stick that went in (in line with the angle that I shot), differed in angle from the stick that was sticking out on the other side. On the hippo for example, the exit shot exited the right side of the head noticably lower then where the shot went in on the left side, and it was not because I was shooting from above angle. I was shooting virtually horizontal with the hippo. Ele entry hole was virtually straight inline with the spine (looking from the front), while the exit hole was out behind the head on the elephants left side. The angles did not correspond.

These are of course totally unscientific observations in the field, and just something I noticed and found interesting. Nothing more.

Erik,

the stick in / stick out method is very obsolet.
I always try to go through the whole wound channel with one stiff wire. And that is very difficult, because the different layers of tissue tend to shift against each other.

BTW, even with soft copper the SP will go straight, it is then acting like the other well-tried FNs from soft copper like GS, Northfork, Bridger etc.