The legendary handgun hunter, Elmer Keith, found by experience that hard cast bullets are most effective on big game. He had many years of practical experience and knew that they did the job.

@CharitoBaker

4 ай бұрын

Keith 429421 ,44 at 267grains in front of 18 grains of 2400 lit off by CCI 350 primer. Took my first elk with one of them.

You failed to mention that the lead has to be hard enough to withstand velocities over 1100 fps. When I was young and stupid (over 55 years ago) I started to reload. I reloaded some 38 Special wadcutter bullets that might have been cast or swedged. Swedged bullets are much softer than hard cast. After firing one cylinder, I noticed that the bullets were key-holing. Upon inspecting the barrel, I noticed that the lands and grooves were GONE! Actually, they were still there but because I loaded the rounds faster than 1100 fps, the bullets just skid across the lands and grooves and filled them with lead. A serious lesson was learned.

I love the fact that you guys not just rely on ballistics gel, but actually use something that simulates a real body. Really, really nice!

Oh, hold on, are you telling me that I've been strutting around wearing layers of denim and I was as vulnerable as everyone else?

@andreahighsides7756

4 жыл бұрын

Polly Archer the fbi standard comes from a 9mm fired in the 1987 miami shooting hitting the heart of a perp but just bouncing off and not penetrating. Before reaching the heart it went through the perpatrators denim jacket, into his arm, back through two more layers of denim, and then into his torso and right up to his heart, but again not having velocity to penetrate it. So in that shootout the denim jacket kept the perpetrator alive for a few more minutes during which he killed several fbi agents

@HazeAroundtheWorld

4 жыл бұрын

Ignorant swine

@doctoruttley

4 жыл бұрын

😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@ChiTownGuerrilla

4 жыл бұрын

@@andreahighsides7756 Shit, that's good news! We need way less tyrants.

@andreahighsides7756

4 жыл бұрын

R6Mute Main do a wheelie

Hey Gentlemen, I first started watching you all when I needed some tips on restoring my newly purchased Mosin 91/30. You guys ALWAYS teach me something new and keep me laughing in the process! Thanks for another fun day in class. Grace & Peace

Awesome video! I got to meet Eric and Chad this year at the NRA convention! Two of the nicest most down to earth guys you could ever meet! Eric gave me a patch for my jacket and a Velcro patch he pulled off his own backpack! I was greatful and glad I got my pic made with these two KZread ledgends :-D

@johncarter4093

8 жыл бұрын

really though KZread legends fit definitely going to remember the whole Iraqveteran8888 crew

those 340 grain hard cast bullets are freaking runaway freight trains especially at +p+ pressures. I was shooting some jugs full of water with different bullets with my Ruger Redhawk and the JSP and HP were impressive as they exploded the jugs. The hard cast 340 gr. just punched a hole through the jug but left a huge hole in the ground behind the jug. Awesome videos like always.

@randallchunn8286

2 жыл бұрын

“That’s what she said”LOL.

I can remember as a kid,( in the 70’s) my dad was always jumping out of the truck at intersections picking up tire weights to melt them down and cast bullets for the .44 and .38. The .44 was always my favorite (original Ruger super Blackhawk) because the mold was a conical armor piercing one and he loaded a bit hot but the fun levels were off the charts. Cool video.

Very well done. Excellent testing. Watching you from the beginning Mosin Nagant days til' now, it's a relief to see this level of analysis and testing being done opposed to what everyone else is doing. It's lifestyle and passion opposed to attempting a half assed video to add to what we've already seen. Fantastic!

what i love about this guy, is he's kind of a country bumpkin, but he speaks so well and with confidence . its hard not to like this guy

@828enigma6

6 жыл бұрын

Jacob McKay Don't judge the book by it's cover. He's way smarter than many wanna be firearms experts.

@kennethhigdon1159

6 жыл бұрын

He is also a combat veteran

@ownenk

5 жыл бұрын

Does being country, make you not speak well?

@ownenk

5 жыл бұрын

@Dj d I live in the country too. There's a cornfield right next to my house, everyone around here is well spoken, with an accent.

@ownenk

5 жыл бұрын

@Dj d living in a rural area doesn't make you illiterate, being illiterate makes you illiterate.

I’ve cast thousands in 357mag 44 mag 45/70 and in pa.where I lived I had Honor of Guys from several gun clubs taught me tons of reloading and casting with linotype or printers lead, it hardens lead for serious fps in all calibers thanks for teaching youngens some good info

Love your videos man, you pack them full of different tests and you keep it interesting the whole time. You've earned a loyal subscriber today.

By far this is the best video I have seen in a while! You guys rock, I love the fact that your content is unique, haven't seen too much on this. Keep these ballistic vids coming, stay safe stay healthy, wish you all the best!

your camera work is fantastic. I really enjoyed the slow motion shot through the baffle boards. Perfect lighting.

Fantastic shooting and scary impacts from those "old" cast rounds! Imagine the (final) surprise of someone underestimating them in a home/self defense situation? you'd be cleaning bits of intruder out of your walls for days!

Really good content you have here. I thoroughly enjoyed the video thank you for your time and effort and everyone else that was involved.

depleted uranium rounds are the deadliest ammo.

@fokjohnpainkiller

7 жыл бұрын

MEME STAR If you're in a position where their use is needed, radiation is the least of your concerns

@fokjohnpainkiller

7 жыл бұрын

***** There is a counter argument though. Likelihood of engagement versus the time spend with those rounds equipped. And if they're not equipped and ready to go, what's the point of having then stored since they won't be used when needed most.

@fokjohnpainkiller

7 жыл бұрын

***** There's nothing better than depleted uranium for projectiles. I don't think you can buy any for rifles though. There mustn't exist any ammo for handheld weaponry for a multitude of reasons including legal, environmental and security ones. Such ammo is used in cannons, 30mm and above I'd imagine

@cunt5885

7 жыл бұрын

Dustin Pardy no. fluoroantimonic acid rounds are the deadliest. (contained in a thin teflon projectile der)

@kennethhigdon1159

6 жыл бұрын

The rounds from a plutonium 238 space modulator has the deadliest round

When my wifes mother died I helped clean out her home. Her deceased husband had been a police officer for many years. His reloading bench was like a time capsule from 1968. He had hundreds of cast bullets, mostly in .38. His go to round seemed to be semi wad cutter hollow points. We still have his J frame back up gun. It was loaded with them when we found it. I also found several boxes of handloaded wadcutters, about half of which were turned around backwards in the cases. Thats an old school hollow point for ya....

@slick66

6 жыл бұрын

It's not uncommon. Reversing the wadcutter was something a lot of backup guns were loaded with ;)

@tccoup355

6 жыл бұрын

semi wadcutter turned backwards.

@828enigma6

6 жыл бұрын

Actually work quite well if not driven too fast. At 38 Spl velocities, it expands well and has decent penetration. At 357 Mag velocities, they are virtually explosive and have very poor penetration. Not a bad choice, loaded near max for 38 Spl, especially in a snub nose.

@johnhenry9162

6 жыл бұрын

@ Stoned................you're wrong. It's quite common to reverse a hollow base wadcutter and load it base out for a large hollowpoint. Quit trying to play expert when you clearly are wet behind the ears and in no way an expert.

@meeshaka6016

6 жыл бұрын

Some 38 cal wad cutters had hollow bases to increase the bearing surface of the bullet. Some had an identical top and bottom. So the people talking about turning them upside down are talking about the hollow base ones.

The accuracy difference between a semi wadcutter cast and a jacketed hollow point or Flat Point would be interesting. Plus I would have like to seen if there was a difference of performance between jacketed and the cast lead bullets in the ballistic gel.

your channel has defiantly evolved erick I'm always excited to see new content that you upload.keep up the good work bro

Strange to see a HV(Norwegian home guard) uniform on an American. Surplus or some story behind it Iraqveteran8888?

@holern904

8 жыл бұрын

im actually from norway :D

@willie_brydon

8 жыл бұрын

Eric often wears military jackets from different countries in videos

@showgunnw

8 жыл бұрын

He has the left patch of HV-02 (Oslo og Akershus) and seeing that it is the new patch i would guess the jacket is surplus but the patches are probably sent/traded to him. i'm originally from norway, but moved to the US last year and a lot of american veterans/soldiers trade patches with soldiers overseas and on the internet especially TMBN patches :)

@Kireddo

8 жыл бұрын

Works out quite well, even though its not pure socialism, luckily. We are after all in top3 countries in the world.

@Rakadis

8 жыл бұрын

You can see around 6:50 that the patch is in fact a HV-09 patch (Bergenhus)

Love the demeanor of this guy, could listen to him talking about guns all day.

@Rippo-nater

6 жыл бұрын

the trick would be getting him to stop talking lol

Videos like this are the reason I stay subbed. Great job guys.

In Zimbabwe when they were working on allowing handgun hunting, some of the Game Warden guys there took hardcast bullet with core of hard metal. That proved very good on Elephant, zipped through, buffalo, and also for terrorist stopping. The .41 Mag and .44 Mag were the guns chosen to be test weapons for the trials. Trials went well and it is allowed there.

It would be nice to do a side by side comparison of the heavy hard cast loads with the Underwood Extreme Penetrator ammo. I'm wondering how the wound channel and penetration would compare.

Take a shot every time he says "penetrate" 😆

@robbanta2979

7 жыл бұрын

M - Dub19 or when he says, "I tell ya what"

@LeftCatcher

7 жыл бұрын

Rob Banta Georgia speak is great "more times than you can shake a stick at it."

@sunshadow7XK

6 жыл бұрын

We want a drinking game, not alcohol poisoning!

@edbecka233

6 жыл бұрын

M - Dub19 I'd be swacked two minutes in!

Amazing video quality! Keep up the high production value guys!

Thanks for all the effort you went to (making the ballistics gel/giving us the speeds/using various shooting platforms). I especially appreciate your revisiting what some people consider an 'un-sexy' bullet--high end hardened lead, with gas-checks. Modern enough for me! Thanks from one of the 500,000 who were in Desert Storm.

Awesome vid. Good to see you enjoy this sort of thing. With all the talk of penetration, inches, loads...sometimes I wonder how you keep a straight face through it all....

@chrisloUSA

8 жыл бұрын

You said load! Hehehe.. :-D

@stanhilt1912

8 жыл бұрын

Nice BT profile pic bro

Well, “that was an interesting result”! Also, “there is no free lunch in physics”.

The direction of the flag actually has a deeper meaning than that. It is a symbol of the soldier walking head on in headwind and difficulties, and that he does not take the path of lesser resistance :)

The insight on the ballistic history was fantastic. Thanks Eric.

that mare's leg is awesome

@bulldogg662

8 жыл бұрын

+Fuh koogle i love penetration videos aswell.

@wachout4life

8 жыл бұрын

hot

@crapcreations8009

8 жыл бұрын

To much battlefield

@robertcainjr.7627

6 жыл бұрын

Dr. Donald J. Trump MD, MscPussy b

@treatb09

6 жыл бұрын

i like the smith.

Love videos like this.

I am just watching this again, no doubt I posted a comment when this came out. I look forward to seeing some more videos about casting and reloading from you. There are many of us who live in areas where ammo is still scarce and just starting to hit shelves with some more regularity. Components are also scarce here in Northern Maine. Thanks for what you do!

love the channel i'm new to the world of firearms and have learned an incredible amount of information and gained so much knowledge from you, keep up the fantastic work.

Norwegian HV light jacket? Representing my brothers to the north.

Aha, I see someone else is starting to use the 'meat target' ;)

Back in the day, in England, a lot of us used “Linotype” hard cast lead for performance rounds in .45ACP, 9mm and .38 Special (+ others). Linotype was used in newspaper printing and could cast quite fine detail. Used them in UKPSA comps for Major rounds. Best, Pete.

Thanks man, you answered a lot of questions. I reload and only use cast bullets, By far the best cast vs jacketed bullet and cast ballistics test video out there.

Nice Norwegian HM jacket:D or Heimevernet (home guard) jacket:D

@Wehra96

8 жыл бұрын

M02 jakke

@wimpmcgrump7871

8 жыл бұрын

was it a copy?

@Wehra96

8 жыл бұрын

Wimp McGrump probably a sub sent it to him

@wimpmcgrump7871

8 жыл бұрын

Yes, probably, but I think it's a copy. It should've a zipper.

I'm interested in a video on casting. :)

I'm glad you guys love making these videos. And I'm glad I get to watch your videos thank you guys

This might be my favorite video yet. Great job guys.

Great video! I would love to see a video on heat treating and hard casting.

i like your jacket i come from norway

@deejay1724

6 жыл бұрын

parkour og fotball Show Norway is gay

@Miggys.Garage

6 жыл бұрын

Dee Jay fuck you

This channel truly is a priceless resource. Much gratitude...

Love these types of vids. Thank so much for the info and the examples.

Barry approves this video.

Where did you get a norwegian Heimvernet jacket?

@paxaboris

8 жыл бұрын

Gesundheit!

@iballlp

8 жыл бұрын

+d lol was?

@wildonemeister

8 жыл бұрын

1. It is not a Heimevernet [HV] (Home Guard) jacket - it's a standard Norwegian military jacket with a Home Guard velcro patch on it. 2. I do also want to know how he got that!

@azaryhaaurilen181

8 жыл бұрын

thankyou MrObvious ;) let me refrain my question. Where did you get a standard norwegian miitary jacket and a HV patch. Better?

@wildonemeister

8 жыл бұрын

No, your original question was not obvious for the general public Holmes. A reply from the man himself is unlikely.

Love the lighting. Love the range. Love the channel. Beautiful.

I enjoy seeing the Golden Boy's getting some love from the IV8888 crew of late. That 44 is a hand cannon. Literally. Also, give the Underwood 38 Special +P 158 Grain HCK a try. You'll have a new found respect for what the old 38 is capable of. Great video guys!

Would have been nice to see all this with a .357 Magnum thrown in for comparison.

@308dad8

2 жыл бұрын

357 is already known to be awesome. He’s trying to awesome the rest of those cartridges.

@sj6404

2 жыл бұрын

ssshhhhhh... there are men working on this page....

Are you aware that those 340 gr Underwood loads are way over max for that Model 29? I wouldn't want you to loosen up or wear out a nice handgun. For that matter they may not be safe in the Henry either. Great video otherwise.

@Iraqveteran8888

8 жыл бұрын

Over max? A steady diet would be unadvisedle, but in a hunting or defensive situation life will go on

@davidl7006

8 жыл бұрын

+Iraqveteran8888 whats unadvisedle?

@RottiDog100

8 жыл бұрын

No inadvisable. Thats what he meant but awesome upload. WE need more of this quality of content.

@err1c991

8 жыл бұрын

Glad that detail got addressed...

@georgejohnsmith

8 жыл бұрын

+Desertfox2020 I was happy to find your comment, I wanted to write exactly the same. This load is NOT for the Smith&Wesson.

Love what you guys do on this channel!

you guys do awesome job keep the vids coming! I saw an episode where one of you talked about a gun that had "everything you need and nothing you dont". That could be a great topic for upcoming vids or a series.....

You should have stepped up to 45-70 Govt. major mistake. Buffalo/Indian killer how in the hell could you not have had that bullet in this video?

@garrettholland664

8 жыл бұрын

agreed

@bowlofrice8

6 жыл бұрын

Of a 44-40 because of how common it was

pls do a video about casting

@bowlofrice8

6 жыл бұрын

Afanios melt lead add tin pour in mold

Excellent program planning, a clear aurthorative voice, and no bullshit cover music. This is one of the better firearm videos.

freakin awesome vid, love all the info! please go into detail with the casting methods including hard casting & tempering involved

NORWAY MY HOME!!!😱😱😍😂❤️❤️❤️🇳🇴🇳🇴

Nice jacket from my beatifull country norway. You should vist it :)

@eddiefincher6146

6 жыл бұрын

ivanHDgamer99 best gaming ppl l79

love the vids on the older tech of firearms... its old technology, but its constantly evolving :)

Great video. I have been thinking about getting into cast bullets for target and hunting. Appreciate all your hard work!

Nice vest, hei fra Norge

That .44 bullet sounds like a great 'hog-gun' round.

@asherdie

8 жыл бұрын

in a ruger Deerfield it is awesome

@k.backus6349

7 жыл бұрын

I carry 310 gr. Laser cast in Grizz country with full confidence I can make one sit down and behave if I have to but now I'm going to have to get some of those 340 gr. Underwoods...that was impressive.

@tank2449

7 жыл бұрын

in a marlin 1894 its the bees knees.

Love the Matchlock. Thanks again guys ! Great vid.

Always learning something from your channel. Thank you.

Nothing beats a pommel

Norwegian national guard uniform 😊👍

Loved it ! I was very helpful to me knowing . And fun to watch .

4:41 - Man!! A blast from the past, litterally! That musket means business. Gotta love this channel :)

Hey would you guys mind shooting ar500 level 4 ceramic body armour backwards. I think it would be a cool test as they are a 2 piece design.

@PDXJack87

8 жыл бұрын

I wanna see that. both ceramic and metal. lvl 4 body armor

@sd09gfh8sfgjmsf9yhkm

8 жыл бұрын

Why? We all know it's gonna stop the bullet, why not just ask him for a video of shooting it into the dirt? Actually that might kill the earth.

@johnoliveras9672

8 жыл бұрын

i believe the demo ranch did that.

@backyardboom7472

8 жыл бұрын

+AlexanderSuperTramp no the ceramic plates are a two piece design. Ceramic layer breaks up bullet and the composite layer catches the fragments. But if you turn it around and shoot the backside it will be the composite layer in front and ceramic behind

@backyardboom7472

8 жыл бұрын

+Vladimir kurylenko no I just checked his uploads.

NORWAY

@Eriksen2854

8 жыл бұрын

Så mangler vi bare at Eric i dansk M84 ;)

@AgentSmith911

8 жыл бұрын

Heimevernet!

@alexmorrison4145

8 жыл бұрын

I am 36 in line for the symbolic king of Norway, my family traces back and and goes way back to when Norway was founded. So pretty cool I guess

@dogguy8603

8 жыл бұрын

+Alexander Morrison everyone with European ancestry has royal relatives, (they had a ton of illegitimate children)

@ExcitingStuff

8 жыл бұрын

The flag is turned the wrong way. :( Hope it is not sown on like that.

That hard cast lead 44 mag bullet would make a great brush round. When I was a kid my Father and I would go to the tire shop and pick up all the old tire weights we could get and that is what we would cast our bullets with. They made great bullets. We used them for shooting targets and for hunting. We would buy some Speer bullets every once in a while for the large calibers for deer hunting but used the casts for target shooting still. You can run the in the Garand or the M1 carbine fine also. They make great slugs also.

That big, flat meplat on the.429 inch pill is another reason to love it for use on big game. The edge on it will do a lot of schearing on its way through a critter.

Be very very careful, I think the +p+ ammo is not safe to fire out of that revolver!

@NeuroticLobster

8 жыл бұрын

its fine

@billchapman6361

8 жыл бұрын

the old vaquero is a heavy frame revolver also was chambered in 44 mag ,i load a 300 gr xtp with a heavy charge of w296 mag powder into starline brass, chorngraph at 1180 fps it is well within the pressure range of a safe load but not for the new vaquero

@rossgreenzweig

6 жыл бұрын

Needs to get a Ruger Super Redhawk :) for that +p+ ammo

@exothermal.sprocket

6 жыл бұрын

Super Blackhawk should handle anything that starts to rupture brass without a sweat.

@Kyle-oe2vs

6 жыл бұрын

Correct. The SW frames are not built to take a steady diet of +p or +p+

damn cliffhangers!

@Iraqveteran8888

8 жыл бұрын

The cliffhanger video is coming tomorrow. 🙊

@Thegauntlet04

8 жыл бұрын

+Iraqveteran8888 has anyone ever experimented with kirksite round's?

@ZaJaClt

8 жыл бұрын

+Iraqveteran8888 why would you use full coke bottles?.. all that soaked into the ground..

@Killerpalme

8 жыл бұрын

as he said in an earlier video, he is against Coke and sorts of them.

@jabberwookie1404

8 жыл бұрын

He's preventing childhood diabetes, one round at a time.

I enjoy your videos a lot Eric! Definitely look forward to when you post new videos. Keep up the great work brother!

love your work. Airgun article was fascinating. well done.

I...........cannot.imagine, being in battle, trying to get a piece of "rope" to light, lol Uh, Hold on enemy solider. the winds blowing too hard at the moment", haha

Why throw away that ballistic gel dummy? Why not melt it down, skim all the crap out of it, and recast it into a block for future use?

@captainpatchwork8107

8 жыл бұрын

Questionable quality, which makes any results gained from testing with it unreliable.

@falconuruguay4588

8 жыл бұрын

+Captain Patchwork As long as you are not adding anything which would change the properties of the gel, or mixing different batches of gel together, it should not be an issue. It just seems incredibly wasteful to throw away the ballistics gelatin, just because it has some particulate in it, and I'm sure that reusing the blocks over and over again during shoots would affect the ballistics gelatin more than melting it down and re-pouring it into blocks.

@jameswarner7435

8 жыл бұрын

That is one damn good idea, if it works. That ballistics gel is NOT cheap. With ease, you could skim, screen, and filter out almost all impurities when its melted. I wonder if it has to reach a specific temperature to set up with the same/correct firmness again? As long as it gels up at all, even if it isn't perfect quality, you would have a very valuable target. Might lose a little bit each usage, from the bullet damage, but why not recycle the gel into another awesomely dynamic target block! I bet you could make a machine that automatically melted down and reset your gel blocks.

@falconuruguay4588

8 жыл бұрын

+James Warner As long as you keep the gel under 250 degrees Fahrenheit, it should melt with ease, but it will take some time to get it fully melted. All you would have to do is cut the main block into smaller chunks, place it in a large stainless steel container like a big cooking pan, and set it in the oven at about 200 to 220 degrees, and just let it all sit in there until it fully melts, all the particulate would sink to the bottom, then all that would be left is once all the bubbles are gone, and it is fully melted, you could leave it in the container you are melting it in, let it cool completely, then once it is unmolded, take a piece of wire and just cut off the bottom part that contains all the particulate.

@mikemcnamee6030

8 жыл бұрын

Eric is a busy man, it probably does not make financial sense for him to spend the time cleaning up and recasting the gel block. Probably easier for him to just huck it in the trash and wait for a sponsor to donate another block to the channel.

This video was both interesting and entertaining. Good job and thanks.

Awesome video. Super impressive. Good history lesson, also. Subscribed!

i think depleted uranium rounds might be a bit more deadly but UNO ......we cant even get airsoft guns in aus

@koastal312

8 жыл бұрын

theres no DU rounds for small arms

@JohnDoe-np6lb

8 жыл бұрын

stan 20mm i know its not a small arm but it is a rifle that 1 person can shoot

@stank8262

8 жыл бұрын

yeh we can just need a license

@JohnDoe-np6lb

8 жыл бұрын

Jaz poop not airsoft

@stank8262

8 жыл бұрын

Yes air soft look at police web site regarding firearms license categorys

So much uptalk, it's crazy? It's like every sentence is a question?

Nice video - I just upgraded my woods gun to .44 mag and this makes me feel 100% more comfortable walking anywhere in the lower 48. I've currently got fmj flat nosed in 240 grain but seriously thinking of using this load while hiking the back country. Of course bear bones are tougher than the ribs you put up but considering everything else it went through, it should pen even large black bears (what I may encounter) no problem. Thank you.

Well done Troops, that looked like fun.

+P+ is a hot fucken load! ... but the Model 29 should handle that with no problems.

What a waste. There are starving children in Africa who could have eaten those bullets.

Eric when you shot the 44 magnum this actually brought tears to my eyes I used to have the s&w mod. 29 I had to hand it in in 1997 in the uk when handguns were banned brought back some nice memories. Although I am back into shooting again with all the uk restrictions I’m looking for a 357 chiappa rhino now. I also have a marlin 1894 44 magnum so not all bad.

@jorgesolis9468

3 жыл бұрын

Step one is gtfo of uk

Man, this is such a great video!!! Hey from 2021!

Keep both eyes open. Especially when shooting a pistol. Go back and look at yourself shooting you close your left eye.

@gustavjanson9682

8 жыл бұрын

I'm sure he doesn't need anyone tellig him his eye is closed....

@Xtorin_Housecat_Ohern

8 жыл бұрын

closing one eye allows for better alignment of the sights, i feel like he knows substantially more then you

@Life-ch8rj

8 жыл бұрын

+Xtorin “Xt” O'hern I feel like he substantially knows more than you. I don't know you so that would be a stupid assumption.

@Life-ch8rj

8 жыл бұрын

+Gvynar Elmoss maybe or maybe not sometimes we need to be reminded of things. We forget the basics sometimes.

@gustavjanson9682

8 жыл бұрын

Shooting with both eyes open is not something basic. I'm pretty sure he chose to shoot with one eye closed, as do many shooters.

Great video on cast bullets, would love to see your casting setup and the results from your fabrication. Make that video, I'll bet the results would be awesome as well.

nice, just want to say I really apply our work ie seen all your videos. one can never learn and review enough

On lower velocity bullets like 38 special you can use soft cast. You get leading if you go faster than 900 fps. I use hard cast wad cutters in my j- frame even though I’m only doing 750 to 800. No problems with penetration even with a 380. I love these videos, because of my age I can no longer take the recoil from my old Colt Python with +p loads. Keep up the good work

Thank you for the video. To shoot a lot I use cast bullets. This shows me that a cast bullet shooting slower than 1000 fps is a good defensive load.

Fantastic testing on the Hard cast bullets very informative crazy stuff thanks

great video I just learned how to hard cast bullets from SDI this is a great video to see what they can do

Great video- lots of fun! Thanks