Bullet splash/failure

Yotarunner said:


Well try as I might I can't find the dang video this guy stole from. If anyone knows let me know and il post it instead of this one. This is an Instagram reel so if guys can't see it I will delete the thread.
This video shows perfectly a close range bullet "splash" watch the shoulder and at the shot a massive entry is shown.
Guys in the 53vmax thread were mentioning they had never seen or had a splash and I figured this video showcases it perfectly.
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Looked to me like it got hit to far back.
 
I splashed with a 58vmax once. Hit front shoulder, he spun for 10 seconds or so and then layed down and took one to the head. 120-150yd. Little fragments all through him and a broken shoulder.
 
I stay off the shoulder if at all possible. I've hit coyotes behind the shoulder shooting them with a .223 for years and rarely have one run anywhere. If they do they don't run far. Softpoint bullets will blow a big chunk of meat and fur off if you hit them directly in the shoulder. It's tough to get through that shoulder bone. Your only saving grace there is it'll usually mangle them up so bad you can get another shot off. The only ones I've ever really lost were ones I saw moving and thought they were flopping around because they were dying. Which they weren't, they were flopping around because they were trying to live. And once they catch that second wind, they're gone. The biggest take away with any cartridge is if they're still moving then I'm still shootin. That coyote in the video may very well have fell over dead. But I wouldn't ever know it because when it was spinning like that I'd have been shooting it some more times.

I've seen coyotes hit with 58 grain V-Max out of a .243 and it did the same thing. Only difference is the hydrostatic shock was enough to stop their heart. It may not have penetrated very deep but it looked like they got hit with a grenade launcher.

Hitting the top of that ball joint of their shoulder typically rips a big hole upwards towards the top of their back. Which makes sense if you think about it. The bullet shatters on bone and it's not going through so it's only got one way to go from there which is up. That's why it's typical to see a big strip of fur from the point of impact clear up on top of their back is blowed off and laying somewhere nearby. It sent fragments up and out the top side of that coyote. A lot of times those wounds are in the shape of an oval more than a circle.
 
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Im curious what can be done with solid copper bullets. What is the max velocity and twist rate of a 45gr TSX? One of those traveling at or above 3500fps at a 1-8 twist could be amazing. The 53 TSX happens to be the most accurate bullet in my little 1-4x scoped 16" carbine, if Ive got a good rest the groups are smaller than the center of my fat crosshairs, Ive got them HBN lubed and shooting through a 8 twist BHW barrel. Im totally off the charts with the loads the gun can take, i literally took a couple years working my way up to finding out just what the barrels can handle but Ive got a 53 TSX going 3330fps with 223 and CCI450s look fine. Larger cases and longer barrels should get a 45gr easily close to 4000fps.

55gr BT TTSX have a BC of .272 i think, 53gr Vmax BC .290...
 
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