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Bullet stop
« on: November 24, 2009, 02:43:16 PM »
My son want to recover bullets to see how they perform what would you all suggest for a stop? He was thinking of putting phone books together just wondering if there's something better. Thanks Mark.  P.S. everone needs to ride him and Justin to get their Wyoming combo hunt story and picture's on here that they got for a Christmas present last year.

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Re: Bullet stop
« Reply #1 on: November 24, 2009, 02:54:44 PM »
I've used several layers of OSB and it worked very well.

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Re: Bullet stop
« Reply #2 on: November 24, 2009, 02:59:11 PM »
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Re: Bullet stop
« Reply #3 on: November 24, 2009, 03:01:25 PM »
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:IBCOOL: :chuckle:

So how many yotes do you have to line up to test a 168 gr Barnes TSX out of 300 win mag?  Would be more fun than stacking phone books or something.
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Re: Bullet stop
« Reply #4 on: November 24, 2009, 03:03:58 PM »
wet phone books or water jugs lined up.

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Re: Bullet stop
« Reply #5 on: November 24, 2009, 03:16:01 PM »
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So how many yotes do you have to line up to test a 168 gr Barnes TSX out of 300 win mag?  Would be more fun than stacking phone books or something.

At least 10 :twocents:
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Re: Bullet stop
« Reply #6 on: November 24, 2009, 04:51:32 PM »
I have used wet phone books, jugs of water fresh and frozen, and rotten stumps. With books and stumps you can put 2-3 different make of bullets side by side for a good comparison.

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Re: Bullet stop
« Reply #7 on: November 24, 2009, 05:22:54 PM »
sand bags and a screen to sift with

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Re: Bullet stop
« Reply #8 on: November 24, 2009, 05:36:42 PM »
Unsplit firewood. You can split it and get them out pretty easily.

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Re: Bullet stop
« Reply #9 on: November 24, 2009, 05:49:09 PM »
Takes a little trial and error/adjustment with the amount of loose wet phone books to get just the right amount to penetrate just about all the way through or all the way with little remaining energy then gobbled up in a hill of sand. Sift the sand to recover the bullets in the shape that they expanded to by going through the phone books.

Or, you can build a box framework (not a box). Wrap it with plastic, like the big shrink wrap. Then fill that box with wet sand. Stand some round dowels up in the sand. Shoot through the plastic/sand. Sift and recover what the bullet would be like if hitting flesh and bone.

This is about as close as you'll get to the performance of shooting into ballistic gelatin.

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Re: Bullet stop
« Reply #10 on: November 24, 2009, 07:13:49 PM »
this will stop it,but you dig for it.........I like guts Idea for simplicity

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Re: Bullet stop
« Reply #11 on: November 24, 2009, 07:18:32 PM »
Rasbo good god where do you find these pictures  :yike: never mind I actually do not want to know  :o

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Re: Bullet stop
« Reply #12 on: November 24, 2009, 07:24:33 PM »


Incase you are shooting a big bore!    :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
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Re: Bullet stop
« Reply #13 on: November 24, 2009, 07:31:26 PM »
who's the hottie? Daddy like ;)
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Re: Bullet stop
« Reply #14 on: November 24, 2009, 07:32:37 PM »
omg :yike: that is some nasty pics for sure

as far as the stop i have used firewood, frozen milk jugs, water in milk jugs, sand bags they all work well.
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Re: Bullet stop
« Reply #15 on: November 24, 2009, 07:37:57 PM »
this will stop it,but you dig for it.........I like guts Idea for simplicity

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Re: Bullet stop
« Reply #16 on: November 24, 2009, 08:03:56 PM »
RASBO, WTF???  Gotta stop brother, I just pissed myself in my old age laughing so fricken hard!!!!!!
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