Pellet testing

For the odd bent skirt I use a dummmy 308 round with 130g speer hollow point projectile, which is perfect for pushing the skirt back into shape. Quick & simple.

Edited by flock - 21 Apr 2024 at 11:36am

So in the interest of getting the most out of me old work boots, decided to shoot them to see what differnt pellets did out of same gun at 10 pumps @20m.
Not overly exciting, penitration through leather, but that was it didn't make it through thin layer of foam or gortex lining.
Pellet damage minimal with both the AA 16gr and h&n fft showing no ill effect and would have been reshootable.
You can see the AA still in the leather on your right .
Hades suffered enough skirt damage to not be usable again, and very slight head damage. But.....


Due to the fact skin isn't dry I decided to soak the Tounge in water for 10min and see what happened. Hoping the hydrostatic shock of water in the leather would open the pellets up.
The resault

NOT ONE PELLET PENITRATED the leather.
Go figure. Definitely didn't think that would happen.
The gun is putting out around (slightly over or under) 7fpe with hades 15.89gr at muzzle, last time I did a reading on it.


Edited by kruzaroad - 31 Jul 2024 at 12:46pm

   That will be the refrance to the formidable protection label. What ever the rubber it is on laughed at pellets. Bounced off that part without hardly leaving a mark.
Looking at the pic it's only a very shallow layer that's wet too.

Wonder if I x4 cut from the neck of the skirt, up the back part of head to just below widest part of head if it would allow the front of the head to compress the under side and give better expansion.
Maybe tommorow

More so when wet.
Doesn't tear as much with just a mil or so of leather wet.
I'd be rather interested to see what it would do on a fresh hide, at full thickness.
You work skins bb, what do you think a pellet would pierce better?
Thinned, worked boot leather or fresh hide of a deer?

Wet leather is definitely more plyable.
The extra engery it absorbs will vary on how loose the leather is. Tight wrapped it can't "give" as much due to tensed fibers. As both wet and dry were same distance and tension I see that theory as part of it. I think the swelling of the indervidual fibers also causes a denser matting (if that's the right word) of them, also making the leather denser than it was. Again speculation on my behalf.

Just claim it was moths. Lol.
So cutting under the head did nothing for expansion either. Did a couple of pellets each of a 4 and a 8 under cut.
So disappointed and resigned to the fact I'm probly never going to get decent expansion without a pcp went onto something else I've been meaning to test.
Dacron as a pellet catcher. After seeing how well the sleeping bag stopped crossbow bolts it's had me curious.
So the non expanding pellets were shot into leather with a dacron backing at 10m from 1322. Caught them nicely. But hey the leather probly took some energy out. So I got rid of the leather, folded the dacron 6 layers thick, put it in my pellet trap (cheapo gun City thing that the rifles blew the back out of shortly after I got it and had to throw a couple of steel plates in.) pumped the 1322 up ten times, placed it an inch from the dacron, stood to the side and fired. Did it 5 times after no ricochet from the first.
Though the pellet's would punch to layer 5 of the dacron, the pellet never got through the 3rd layer.
Its pretty impressive stuff really.
None of the pellets caught had any damage at all.
You can buy the stuff. Some sleeping bags and cushions have it. The stuff I used was out of old cushions, but the sleeping bag will be getting pulled apart for target backing next fine day.
2 pics, two differnt shots. One to show how far it pushes into the dacron without letting through. (the next two layers looked the same)
One to show the pellet caught and held and the indent into the other layers.