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So, about 2 years ago I started shooting hard cast lead bullets out of my various cowboy guns. Its cheap, gets failry good accuracy, and l have never gotten leading in my bores from it.
Last week, I helped a freind of mine build a berm on his farm. It was made from a bunch of locust trees that we felled from his property. If you hae never had the joys of cutting and carring locust - it is a very heavy, dense wood. It literally eats chainsaw blades. We were able to get about 10 cuts though 12 - 16 inch trees before needing to swap blades for sharp ones. Afterwards, we did a little shooting. I was using my 45-70 shooting 450 grain hard cast lead at about 1700 - 1800 FPS from an old Marlin lever gun.
After the shooting, we went to go check out the back of the berm we made. Some of those hard casts cut through the berm. I recovered one bullet that was sticking out of a 14 inch log. It went through the center of the log. It was not deformed. The nose of the bullet was still round.
I had been considering using these bullets as hunting bullets. But they are simply too hard. It would pass right through a deer, and would not expand enough for bear. Thats it for me for hard cast bullets - at least in my 45-70.
Zach
Last week, I helped a freind of mine build a berm on his farm. It was made from a bunch of locust trees that we felled from his property. If you hae never had the joys of cutting and carring locust - it is a very heavy, dense wood. It literally eats chainsaw blades. We were able to get about 10 cuts though 12 - 16 inch trees before needing to swap blades for sharp ones. Afterwards, we did a little shooting. I was using my 45-70 shooting 450 grain hard cast lead at about 1700 - 1800 FPS from an old Marlin lever gun.
After the shooting, we went to go check out the back of the berm we made. Some of those hard casts cut through the berm. I recovered one bullet that was sticking out of a 14 inch log. It went through the center of the log. It was not deformed. The nose of the bullet was still round.
I had been considering using these bullets as hunting bullets. But they are simply too hard. It would pass right through a deer, and would not expand enough for bear. Thats it for me for hard cast bullets - at least in my 45-70.
Zach
