Bullets you've recovered...

[wasrjoe]

I've always thought it was neat to try and recover ullets I've fired. Anyone else do this (and more importantly have pictures of what you've recovered? )

Anyway, here's my pic:
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The three badly deformed bullets are 7.62x39 Wolf softpoints. The undeformed bullet is a .45, WWB. All fired into stuff and then dirt.

 

[Sisco]

Here's a Nosler 41mag 210gr HP recovered from a feral hog.

 

[taliv]

i like to recover and examine bullets i've shot too. however, inevitably, someone around me (usually a youth) starts carrying on about how cool the mushroomed bullet looks and asks to keep it as a souvenir. so, i've never managed to take any home to be photographed

 

[spacemanspiff]

did you know that one yellow pages can stop a 230 gr fmj .45acp? but it wont stop 3, that takes 2 yellow pages. that is, from 7 yards.
at 10 yards, a romanian fmj of unknown weight, 8mm mauser, will go through 4 yellow pages.

unless its phone books i'm shooting at, i rarely can find my spent bullets. i do pick up bullets that arent mine, have a crown royal baggie full of them.

 

[Ian]

Every time it rains at the range I use, a whole bunch of bullets are exposed in the berm. I've done some poking around looking at them. The coolest thing my friends and I have found in there were a handful of steel cores from .50BMG AP.

 

[HankB]

Speer 300 grain AGS Solid.

The one on the right is new, the one on the left was recovered from a Cape buffalo I took some years ago in Zimbabwe. The bullet entered the buff's right shoulder, hit bone, and traversed most of the length of the buff, coming to rest under the skin in the vicinity of the left hip. The rifle was a .375 H&H, and impact velocity at this range (a little under 20 yards) was between 2500 and 2550 ft/sec.

 

[wasrjoe]

Oh, a neat thing I found out was that a bullet that was apparently the one you just fired can be very hot.

 

[Larry Ashcraft]

Those steel cores from .50 BMG make pretty good center punches.

 

[g56]

Those steel cores from .50 BMG make pretty good center punches.

So do the steel cores from the old 30 caliber AP bullets, I recovered one about 30 years ago, stripped the jacket off of it, after all these years of using it as a punch it's still like a needle on the end!

The only thing wrong with the 30 caliber is that its a little small and hard to hold on to.

 

[mec]

Several. Shot through beef Brisket/Ribs and stopped by wet telephone book to see if they would expand

 

[mack69]

RE:

Don't have a pic but the last bullet I recovered was the last round I had shot out of my newly acquired CZ52. Had run about 100 rounds of WIN 7.62x25 through her and the last case jammed the slide. Never heard the pop....turns out the bullet stuck in the barrel...luckily as I said it was the last round otherwise I could be hurting now....Needed to whack it out with a dowel later on..... Still not sure what caused it....mack

 

[Kramer Krazy]

I've got a few 45ACP and 9mm FMJ bullets that I found in my parent's backyard when I used to shoot there all the time (before they moved). Nothing worth taking a picture of, though. Basically just bullets with rifling grooves on them. One 9mm is a little squished, though. Looks like it hit something sideways.

 

[Jason Demond]

I have a 40 caliber bullet that was shot into a bulletproof vest. It has to be one of the coolest bullest I have, you can see the vest pattern in the bullet.

 

[RooK]

This is one of those premium loadings you get in the expensive packs. Shot from a 4" 629 through water and pulled from a log.

 

[nico]

I have a 170gr Remington CoreLokt in 30-30 that I pulled out of a 100lb field dressed deer (doe) my dad shot this past saturday. It went in the middle of the chest, out the right side just behind the ribs, back into the right rear thigh, and stopped just under the skin on the back of the right rear thigh. I'll try to post a picture. After seeing the way it performed, I'm not as eager to spend more money to try ballistic tips in my .270.

 

[Sisco]

did you know that one yellow pages can stop a 230 gr fmj .45acp?

Did you know three milk jugs full of sand won't stop a .41 mag LSWC from 15 yards? A fourth one will.

HankB; You ought to load that one up and use it again!

 

[Ryder]

I sure do and not just to see how the bullet deformed. It's also a good way to get a feel for a load's terminal performance. I don't need no steenking jello.

The one's I think are the koolest are from unloading my 64 caliber roundballs out of a double barreled shotgun after a day of black powder hunting. I pop them off into sand a few feet in front of me. Makes a big deep crater and the ball being made of soft lead expands flatter than a pancake. No digging involved, just bend over and pick them up.

I haven't got any pictures of expired bullets to share other than the one of my WWII collection off the beaches of Europe.

 

[jefnvk]

I've recovered a few 8mm I shot through a log. One was in pieces (Turk, I think), and the other one was just like above, looks like it hadn't hit anything (Romanian)

I dug out some of my friends 7,62x54 SP's , and those things were shattered. Ther were stopped by less then 1 foot of soil, too.

 

[Kevlarman]

.45 and .45 +P fired into an old level I Kevlar panel:

 

[Pylon]

Is it just me? Or do you guys have a strange fascination with seeing a bullet after it has expanded too?

I can't stop looking at them, everytime i find one either at the range, or in the field, i think its the coolest thing. Morbiscity (is that a word?) aside, I like to think about how deadly these things are and how much damage they can do. Another thought that goes through my mind is
-i can't believe we have created tools with such ruthless efficiency to kill each other with.

 

[clipse]

Winchester whitebox 9mm 115 gr. on left, 147 gr. on right. recovered from water jugs.



Hornady 8mm 135 gr. recoverd from a doe last year.

 

[esheato]

Speer Gold Dot 9mm 124 grain +P

Winchester Black Talon 9mm

Taurus Hex

 

[esheato]

Corbon Pow'R Ball

Fed EFMJ

Speer Gold Dot

 

[esheato]

PMC Starfire

Federal Hydra-Shok

Remington Golden Sabre

 

[SkyDaver]

Many years ago, we had some old computer monitors (LARGE ones) that we took to a range and blasted away.

We probably put 500 rounds through two monitors.

Here are some .45 ACP hardball bullets I pulled out of the carcasses.