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<blockquote data-quote="RoadKill" data-source="post: 452541" data-attributes="member: 29136"><p><span style="font-family: 'Rockwell'">I once demonstrated the importance of proper projectile selection to a friend by busting two liter water filled plastic bottles at one hundred yards with a .308 Win. The bottles were on their side with the base showing and there was a paper backer about two feet behind them. The 165 grain of game construction blew the bottle nicely and expanded in the water to leave a 1/2" to 5/8" hole in the backer. The 130 grain of varmint construction produced more cloud but no hole in the backer. The neck of the bottle separated intact and when I picked it up from the ground it still contained much of the 130 grains in the form of tiny fragments missing only the base. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Rockwell'">My friend did not want to believe that my dangerously hot .357 Mag. 120? grain gapping HP loads from a 6" Model 27 had made a huge but too shallow surface wound on the chest of a 50 pound trash can spreading mutt followed by one miss during my own disbelief and then four more equally too shallow hits in the rear as it drug itself off towards the trees. I had to run grab a .25-06 and a 120 grain Core-Lock to put the finish on the poor critter's career. </span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RoadKill, post: 452541, member: 29136"] [FONT=Rockwell]I once demonstrated the importance of proper projectile selection to a friend by busting two liter water filled plastic bottles at one hundred yards with a .308 Win. The bottles were on their side with the base showing and there was a paper backer about two feet behind them. The 165 grain of game construction blew the bottle nicely and expanded in the water to leave a 1/2” to 5/8” hole in the backer. The 130 grain of varmint construction produced more cloud but no hole in the backer. The neck of the bottle separated intact and when I picked it up from the ground it still contained much of the 130 grains in the form of tiny fragments missing only the base. [/FONT] [FONT=Rockwell] [/FONT] [FONT=Rockwell]My friend did not want to believe that my dangerously hot .357 Mag. 120? grain gapping HP loads from a 6” Model 27 had made a huge but too shallow surface wound on the chest of a 50 pound trash can spreading mutt followed by one miss during my own disbelief and then four more equally too shallow hits in the rear as it drug itself off towards the trees. I had to run grab a .25-06 and a 120 grain Core-Lock to put the finish on the poor critter’s career. [/FONT] [FONT=Rockwell] [/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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