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After hunting season ended this year, i started playin' with breech plug modifications of the plugs in my Omega, and Accura. I have since fired 100's of shots at paper. For awhile i was shooting xtp bullets, and then as time went by i found some Gold Dot bullets for about the same price as the xtp, and because i liked the Gold Dot for hunting, i decided to just shoot them at paper instead of the xtp. I have found a pile of the xtp bullets on the hillside behind the target. A few are intact, but most are pieces of jacket, and pieces of lead laying around on the ground. I have found 2 45 caliber Gold Dot, but have never found a 44 caliber Gold Dot behind the target. This led to a strong desire to try and catch a 44 caliber Gold Dot.
This morning i cut some boards, and bundled them up to help in the capture of a 270g .44 Gold Dot. Also filled a couple laundry jugs with water. The idea was to shoot the bullet through the water and then the boards, and find the bullet in the back of the bundle of boards. Here is a picture of the trap.
Wife came along to take pictures, and she did a fine job 'capturing' the action as shown here.
The trap didn't exactly work as planned. The bullet went through the water jugs just fine, but then it evidently started to turn, and only hit the edge of the front board, and veered off escaping the trap. This made me sad, and we spent some time looking for the bullet. I got tired of that in a bit, and decided to bundle the boards again for another try, even though i didn't figure there were enough of them to stop a bullet. She continued looking for the bullet to no avail, and i put the boards up the hillside to get it further away from the rifle.
When i came back down, and picked up the rifle to reload it, i saw the bullet laying on the road. It had turned right angles, and stopped on the road about 15' away from where the jugs and boards were sitting. So i was now happy because we had achieved our goal, even though it wasn't exactly as planned.
After reloading the rifle i fired it at the bundle of boards, and of course the bullet blew right through them. I wandered up the hill aways beyond the busted up bundle, and there laying on the ground was the bullet.
Here are pictures of the bullets.
The bullet on the left is the one that went through the water jugs, and it weighs near 269g. The bullet on the right went through the boards and bounced on the ground some, and it weighs near 225g with a little bit of wood imbedded in the face.
This morning i cut some boards, and bundled them up to help in the capture of a 270g .44 Gold Dot. Also filled a couple laundry jugs with water. The idea was to shoot the bullet through the water and then the boards, and find the bullet in the back of the bundle of boards. Here is a picture of the trap.
Wife came along to take pictures, and she did a fine job 'capturing' the action as shown here.
The trap didn't exactly work as planned. The bullet went through the water jugs just fine, but then it evidently started to turn, and only hit the edge of the front board, and veered off escaping the trap. This made me sad, and we spent some time looking for the bullet. I got tired of that in a bit, and decided to bundle the boards again for another try, even though i didn't figure there were enough of them to stop a bullet. She continued looking for the bullet to no avail, and i put the boards up the hillside to get it further away from the rifle.
When i came back down, and picked up the rifle to reload it, i saw the bullet laying on the road. It had turned right angles, and stopped on the road about 15' away from where the jugs and boards were sitting. So i was now happy because we had achieved our goal, even though it wasn't exactly as planned.
After reloading the rifle i fired it at the bundle of boards, and of course the bullet blew right through them. I wandered up the hill aways beyond the busted up bundle, and there laying on the ground was the bullet.
Here are pictures of the bullets.
The bullet on the left is the one that went through the water jugs, and it weighs near 269g. The bullet on the right went through the boards and bounced on the ground some, and it weighs near 225g with a little bit of wood imbedded in the face.
