One of the weirdest results I ever got messing around with mud testing was with .308. Silver Bear .308 JSP 140 or 145 gr from a G3 clone.
I fired three rounds at about 25 yds into a small box filled with damp dirt. (not quite mud) The box was only about 16" x 12" x 5" thick. (might have been a box cat litter comes in) I expected a blast of dirt out of the top and spray out of the back. Nope! Nothing! And the bullets didn't even go through the box! I would have thought I'd missed if not for the three holes in the face of the box. When I dug I found small pieces of lead and jacket. The bullets didn't expand I don't think, they simply came apart as if they were made of ice. So weird. I would have expected solid bullets from a .22 rifle to have got through but here .308 did not.
It was a .380, several stayed inside, several went several inches to exit.
It actually looked like it did 100% what it does in their clear gel promotionals.
The exits looked like pin-pricks. At first I thought they were just spots where blood had dried, but when I cleaned them up, they bled. Xray showed the tale of the remaining trochars and tipped me off to what had occurred.
Last edited by WS6; 11-09-19 at 05:57.
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