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- From: kdw@icd.ab.com (Kenneth D. Whitehead)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Nyclad expansion in water (was 9mm Nyclad HPs)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.135627.3070@icd.ab.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 19:57:14 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: Allen-Bradley Company, Inc.
- Lines: 27
- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- nahst6+@pitt.edu (Nathan A Horstman) writes:
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- #So I take several jugs, (plastic milk jugs, plastic two-liter bottles) fill
- #them with water and line them up one behind another. I load up a Nyclad
- #and fire from @ 10 feet away. It went through (to the best of my
- #recollection) a one-gallon jug, a half-gallon jug, 2 two-liter jugs and came
- #to rest inside the last two-liter jug. I very carefully emptied out the
- #water and what was left in the bottom was a perfectly unexpanded Nyclad
- #bullet...in such good shape that it probably could have been loaded and
- #fired again....the only distortion being the rifling marks in the plastic
- #coating and the hollow opening was slightly oval shaped instead of perfectly
- #round. What happened?
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-
- Odd result. I tried the same test with 125 gr. Nyclads in .38 Sp. fired
- into milk jugs (1 gallon, I think). The slug delivered enough shock to the
- first jug that it ruptured the sides of the jug. The second jug was
- penetrated completely, but no explosive effect. The bullet came to rest in
- the third jug in line, perfectly expanded. I then did the same test
- with a 154 gr. "range round" reload wadcutter - it blew the smithereens out
- of all three jugs and kept on going. Even though the Nyclad worked as
- advertised, the shock and penetration of the round (at least in 125 gr.)
- was so wimpy that we decided to get some factory 154 gr. wadcutters
- as a defense round.
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