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Post by Catscratch on Dec 8, 2019 21:21:45 GMT -6
The kid shot a deer yesterday with the a max and this is what we dug out. Got me wondering what it was supposed to do? The core is really light, like aluminum. No lead or copper was found. Is it supposed to mushroom, turn into shrapnel, peal back away from the core like a banana? I looked on the internet and didn't find anything.   |
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Post by sd51555 on Dec 8, 2019 21:31:30 GMT -6
Probably just fly straight. The size and speed of that bullet hitting likely do all the damage like a stick of dynamite going off in there. Skip to the 1:05 mark on this video and watch what happens to the jello block.
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Post by Catscratch on Dec 8, 2019 21:47:51 GMT -6
Halfway through the bullet tips up, then all hell breaks loose. Couldn't see what came out the other end.
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Post by wklman on Dec 8, 2019 21:55:10 GMT -6
Looks like it did what it was supposed to do just that you were probably a 1000 yards too close to the deer.
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Post by Catscratch on Dec 8, 2019 22:09:51 GMT -6
Looks like it did what it was supposed to do just that you were probably a 1000 yards too close to the deer. Probably right. We were close! This gun could shoot far, but I'll never buy the optics that could do it justice or take advantage of the round's capabilities. |
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Post by sd51555 on Dec 8, 2019 22:18:25 GMT -6
Halfway through the bullet tips up, then all hell breaks loose. Couldn't see what came out the other end. I think that bullet is just a means to create a shock wave that liquifies what it hits. |
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Post by wklman on Dec 8, 2019 23:17:47 GMT -6
the tip isn't supposed to peel back. It's supposed to push back into the rest of the projectile so that it peels back and mushrooms. The reason you only found it was because everything else blew apart from the really close impact with the deer.
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Post by Freeborn on Dec 9, 2019 5:55:19 GMT -6
How many guys get to shoot a deer with a 750 grain bullet? Very Cool!
How many grains of powder do you use and what does it cost you per round to reload?
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Post by kabic on Dec 9, 2019 6:07:53 GMT -6
After a little bit of reading the Amax is more of a target round than a hunting round with a thin jacket. I have seen where people complain about jacket separation in other calibers when used for hunting.
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Post by Catscratch on Dec 9, 2019 6:31:39 GMT -6
How many guys get to shoot a deer with a 750 grain bullet? Very Cool! How many grains of powder do you use and what does it cost you per round to reload? I don't reload it. We normally shoot mil surplus that averages out to $2-3 per round (depends on where you find it). The Hornady is $6 per trigger pull. |
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Post by Catscratch on Dec 9, 2019 6:38:04 GMT -6
After a little bit of reading the Amax is more of a target round than a hunting round with a thin jacket. I have seen where people complain about jacket separation in other calibers when used for hunting. That is all I could find; it's supposed to be an accurate (high tolerances) bullet but I found nothing of it's impact performance. I think wklman is probably right in that the core is supposed to push back and expand the lead surrounding it. At such high speeds and energy the lead and copper couldn't stay together. It would have been interesting if he had hit it in muscle to see if there were any shrapnel tears. I think that would have ruined a lot of meat though. We shot a deer once with military surplus ammo in a SKS. The bullet exploded and made a pretty good chunk of the deer inedible due to all the tiny pieces of shrapnel and bone in it. Couldn't even give it to the dog because the pieces were so tiny you couldn't dig them all out. |
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Post by honker on Dec 9, 2019 13:21:12 GMT -6
Looks like it did what it was supposed to do just that you were probably a 1000 yards too close to the deer. Probably right. We were close! This gun could shoot far, but I'll never buy the optics that could do it justice or take advantage of the round's capabilities. Just wait until you have to do perimeter patrol after the SHTF...might want to have those optics just in case |
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