Tuesday, December 18, 2012

"UNSCIENTIFIC" TESTING v1: The .257 cal MHP

MHP stands for Modified Hollow Point.

Some years back, a guy south of me and myself started making x's in the HP mouth and cavity of the 25 cal Crow Magnums and we started calling them MCM's (Modified Crow Magnums).  We would then go out for Jack Rabbit hunts in San Diego and would have a blast testing these pellets.  The MCM's were pretty devastating on the HUGE Diego Jacks.  And we would always post about the MCM's and the results we were getting.

Today, I don't even shoot the CM's as I've found better HP's in the Predators and HP's that i cast myself for my mid and big bore airguns.  For my 308 and 45 HP's, i had not really experimented with a Modified version of one of my cast HP's simply cause the mouths on the bullets are so big that it's really not needed.  WELL, I should have experimented with the anyways as airguns cause of their lower FPS, usually need all the help they can get.  And if you shoot HP's, why not help the bullet start to expand.

Well, now that I've converted my Talond/Condor over to 257 caliber, I've found a jewel of a bullet in the LYMAN 257420 mold.  I recently had one side of it converted to HP and the other side was left as an original Flat Point.

After casting and sizing up a bunch of bullets with the newly modified mold, i decided to try and make a batch of the HP's into MHP's by using the old Razor Blade technique of cutting a x or + into the nose of the HP and then test its effectiveness against a regular HP and the FN bullets. 
So now it would be 3 versions of only 1 bullet.


In this video clip, I'm testing the 3 bullets versions into various mediums.  In the video, you will also note the vapor coming from the muzzle blast as it was cold and just about raining out.  The vapor is pretty cool to see on video and shows just HOW MUCH AIR WE ARE PUSHING in airguns.  I call the video "UNSCIENTIFIC" simply cause i used and ancient technique to judge how effective the bullet versions are on target.  I simply use the old, EYES, BRAIN, EARS and video technique to judge effectiveness of the bullets.......lol!  Nothing scientific about it....lol!


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