paul o'
Well-Known Member
Now there has been an itch I've had for some time that being around the copper bullets!
So I set about seeing if I can make a bullet that fits the bill and also steps around the monolithic copper bullet and the full lead core I had the idea if I could bring both in play but lean more to the copper bullet that didn't drop shards of copper in the carcass after it expanded with the least amount of lead and zero plastic.
This led me to design a flat base none fragmenting bullet but the three leaves open up like a star ! with an extraordinarily little amount lead as a wedge driver to expand and tear the three copper petals. The design I went for was based on the Phillips screwdriver POZ-2 tip in fact ! as we know should you slip they enter one's ones hand very easily. ( ouch !) so I recon a time tested shape will smash the granny out of any bone out there.?
As I don’t own a lath anymore, I asked Tim 243 to help bring this bullet to the next step making and testing on paper to see if forgive the pun it Fly's!.
Tim informed me he had an amount of earth rod that he could use and I sent him my design. He made them and as requested he was easily able to get the weight in the semi finish head 132gr spot on! this head was going to have a finished weight of 133gr .
Once I had the heads back from Tim it was time to cut the three petals and fill in the small wedge shape driving hole with 1gr of lead. This can be seen in the above picture and this needs to be finish a little better with the tool iam making so the meplat can be formed more uniformed.
This process took me around 8 mins for the 5 rounds test.
Testing.
This was done as a five-round group at 100 yrs and the charge was based on a Known 130 copper head bullet.
I feel at this point I'v been able to prove that this bullet head is extremely
accurate.
and the next step is on ballistic gel both 100yrd and 500yrs.
Thanks for looking in
So I set about seeing if I can make a bullet that fits the bill and also steps around the monolithic copper bullet and the full lead core I had the idea if I could bring both in play but lean more to the copper bullet that didn't drop shards of copper in the carcass after it expanded with the least amount of lead and zero plastic.
This led me to design a flat base none fragmenting bullet but the three leaves open up like a star ! with an extraordinarily little amount lead as a wedge driver to expand and tear the three copper petals. The design I went for was based on the Phillips screwdriver POZ-2 tip in fact ! as we know should you slip they enter one's ones hand very easily. ( ouch !) so I recon a time tested shape will smash the granny out of any bone out there.?
As I don’t own a lath anymore, I asked Tim 243 to help bring this bullet to the next step making and testing on paper to see if forgive the pun it Fly's!.
Tim informed me he had an amount of earth rod that he could use and I sent him my design. He made them and as requested he was easily able to get the weight in the semi finish head 132gr spot on! this head was going to have a finished weight of 133gr .
Once I had the heads back from Tim it was time to cut the three petals and fill in the small wedge shape driving hole with 1gr of lead. This can be seen in the above picture and this needs to be finish a little better with the tool iam making so the meplat can be formed more uniformed.
This process took me around 8 mins for the 5 rounds test.
Testing.
This was done as a five-round group at 100 yrs and the charge was based on a Known 130 copper head bullet.
I feel at this point I'v been able to prove that this bullet head is extremely
accurate.
and the next step is on ballistic gel both 100yrd and 500yrs.
Thanks for looking in
you could be on to someone look forward to see what the results are of the rest of your testing 
