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I did a wet pack test with several of my carry guns today. For my P3AT, I tried Fiocchi, S&B and Buffalo Bore. This is the first time I have used Buffalo Bore and it is some kind of great stuff!
All shooting was done at 12 feet into overnight soaked phone books. Fiocchi went 6.5 inches with no expansion. S&B went 5.5 inches with no expansion. Buffalo Bore went 8.5 inches!. Unfortunately, went I was peeling the books to get the bullets, I dropped the BB in my stone filled drive way. It is all #5 grey stone and, though I looked and looked, I never found it.
The recoil was sharp but I did not see any large fireball. The load I was shooting was the 100 grain lead truncated cone bullet. This lead is some kind of hard too.
I can't wait until they come out with a .32 ACP load.
11/24/2007 I shot another wet pack so I could recover the bullets. This time, I used some government manuals which had thicker paper than the phone books. I soaked them overnight and squashed all the water I could out of them this morning.
I shot two bullets from 15 feet out, one stock and one modified with a 1/8 inch hole drilled on my lathe and countersunk to about 1/4".
Both bullets penetrated to 8 inches and neither expanded. I recovered both cases and they show no over pressure signs even though the recoil was snappy.
I have just switched my magazines from the Italian made Fiocchi FMJ to Buffalo Bore. I will also be testing their 32 ACP as soon as I can get some.
John from MD
All shooting was done at 12 feet into overnight soaked phone books. Fiocchi went 6.5 inches with no expansion. S&B went 5.5 inches with no expansion. Buffalo Bore went 8.5 inches!. Unfortunately, went I was peeling the books to get the bullets, I dropped the BB in my stone filled drive way. It is all #5 grey stone and, though I looked and looked, I never found it.
The recoil was sharp but I did not see any large fireball. The load I was shooting was the 100 grain lead truncated cone bullet. This lead is some kind of hard too.
I can't wait until they come out with a .32 ACP load.
11/24/2007 I shot another wet pack so I could recover the bullets. This time, I used some government manuals which had thicker paper than the phone books. I soaked them overnight and squashed all the water I could out of them this morning.
I shot two bullets from 15 feet out, one stock and one modified with a 1/8 inch hole drilled on my lathe and countersunk to about 1/4".
Both bullets penetrated to 8 inches and neither expanded. I recovered both cases and they show no over pressure signs even though the recoil was snappy.
I have just switched my magazines from the Italian made Fiocchi FMJ to Buffalo Bore. I will also be testing their 32 ACP as soon as I can get some.
John from MD