Hunting & Fishing Recovered Bullets-lets see 'em

[HOOFER]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: DustyJacket</div><div class="ubbcode-body">.45ACP 230gr HP after going through 12" of leg, then the floor.

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lol, whose leg

 

[coldboremiracle]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: lone_soldier</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: DustyJacket</div><div class="ubbcode-body">.45ACP 230gr HP after going through 12" of leg, then the floor.

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lol, whose leg </div></div>

+1 there's got to be a good story behind that one.

 

[jrhammons]

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Per request of EHG

180gr .30cal TSX out a Rem 700 300WSM that went the full length of an elk.

 

[ChadTRG42]

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LMAO!!!!
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: elkhuntinguide</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-size: 17pt">Here's the Money I saved using Geico...</span>

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[glocker17]

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17HMR recovered from Naval Oranges used as test media.

 

[ewoaf]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: elkhuntinguide</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Teppo-Ka</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: elkhuntinguide</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I mean me... So far on my contract this year (2009-2010) I have taken 373 Cow Elk, 16 Bull Elk, 27 Whitetail Does, 6 Whitetail Bucks, 19 Mule Deer Does, 4 Mule Deer Bucks, 20 Antelope Does, 5 Antelope Bucks, 7 Black Bears, 4 Mountain Lions, 117 Coyotes, 2 Badgers, 7 Skunks, 11 Raccoons, 27 Feral Domestic Dogs, 300 Feral Pigs, 1 Navajo and a partridge in a Pear Tree...</div></div>
You KNOW what part of that statement is WRONG, but damn that was funny. Oh I am going to hell for that one. </div></div>
<span style="font-size: 14pt">Ya, I had to lie about the Partridge in a pear tree but it sounded so fuckin' "Ringy"...</span>

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Teppo-Ka</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> Speaking of pics post some of the "Stacks" they wanna see!</div></div>
<span style="font-size: 14pt">Here's a couple...</span>

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[img:center]http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj252/elkhuntinguide/Cow%20hunts/Cows7.jpg[/img]




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This was all I could think of looking at this post
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Here's an unknown pill I found in the berm at the range looking for the bottle tops that I shot at 300y. Maybe SKS? has 3 lands. Just wierd looking.

 

[elkkid3]

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Found behind my 580 yard target. 168gr HPBT now it is 167.1gr

 

[coldboremiracle]

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167.1? thats week man! you should of shot the 175's they are so much better!

Oh and shouldn't it have hit the 580 target? not behind it?

Just Kiddin

how fast was it going? looks like it was a soft dirt berm?

 

[Ghost1941]

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Wow... I want EHG's job.

 

[wadevb1]

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180 grain Barnes TTSX recovered from a healthy 180 pound (dressed) whitetail. 300WM quartering away.

 

[Doc Holiday13]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ewoaf</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

Here's an unknown pill I found in the berm at the range looking for the bottle tops that I shot at 300y. Maybe SKS? has 3 lands. Just wierd looking.

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Possibly a 303 brit. Only rifle I've ever seen with 3 lands was an enfield

 

[elkkid3]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: coldboremiracle</div><div class="ubbcode-body">167.1? thats week man! you should of shot the 175's they are so much better!

Oh and shouldn't it have hit the 580 target? not behind it?

Just Kiddin

how fast was it going? looks like it was a soft dirt berm?</div></div>

Friend of mine gave me around 200-300 168's, I wasn't going to let them sit on the shelf and get dusty.

I'm not sure how fast it was going. Surprisingly it isn't a soft dirt berm. It must have hit a soft spot though.

 

[jayd4wg]

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12ga slug (Hastings) removed from a large WT doe shot at 12 yards, facing me. Hit her in the brisket/base of throat. Bullet punctured her left lung, disintegrated the liver(found 5 pieces), travelled under skin on her left side and came to rest against the femur. the broken piece was on the other side of the femur and I think the break and smear was from this bone. This slug traveled basically the entire length of a 180 lb doe and still had enough energy to cut on a bone. Shotty slugs are NASTY up close.

where she fell, and the howitzer before its' current paint:

Same deer 2 hours later:

and 2 hours after that

nuthin but onions, salt, pepper, and butter.

 

[THUNDERBOLT68]

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JasonB,
where is steel city ?????

 

[THUNDERBOLT68]

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Here are some bullets, I do not usally get the Barnes back.

 

[UgashikBob]

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400 grain Hawk 50 Beowulf 199 lasered yards adult bull moose. Both rounds penetrated both shoulders and lodged under off shoulder hide.

 

[Cybnew]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Talljess</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Alaskaman 11</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: tucker301</div><div class="ubbcode-body">This is the .338 Lapua Magnum slug dug out of the skull of a Mexican drug cartel member shot at just under 1000 meters by Sgt. Jethro Gibbs 20 years ago.
I know it looks small for a .338, but Gibbs has huge fingers. He used to play football and he builds boats in his basement.

Gibbs assassinated Pedro in retribution for Pedro's involvement in killing the Sgt's wife and young child.

Here is the live round he carelessly left behind at the scene. It was picked up by a beautiful cartel family member, who wore it as a necklace for the past 20 years.

She gave the round to an NCIS forensics specialist who, when presented with the above slug, matched it back to Gibb's service sniper rifle, using advanced forensic science.

For now, we don't know if the investigator will expose Gibbs as the shooter, or if she will cover for the tough but loving boss who has given her a tanker load of Caf-Pow. </div></div>

Ya I was watching that with the wife, she asked if I had one, I said yes, she then asked if the bullet would look like that, I said nope, there would not be a head to pick it out of. I love the show, but they F'ed up on this one. </div></div>
Ok so the 338 lapua egan production in 1989..right? And I am to believe that this finish weapon was readily availabe in mexico or hell even the us at that time during its first year of production.. What show was this? </div></div>

This is from NCIS. The Team Leader Gibbs is a former Marine sniper who served in Operation Desert Storm

The 20 years also does not add up. Gibbs' wife and daughter are murdered on the last day of Operation Desert Storm (2/28/91). He returns and kills the man who murders them. That would put the bullet recovered as having been fired sometime post Feb 91.

And now back to your regularly scheduled thread.

 

[Shady_Jay]

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60gr V-Max recovered from 250lbs boar

.22LR recovered from 60lbs boar

 

[coldboremiracle]

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175 SMK recovered from the off side of a cow elk. "Sans Plomb"

 

[SavageSlayer]

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Here is a 168 gr. Barnes T-TSX from my Savage 10FP .308 win. Recovered from 300 lb. California boar quartering away at 120 yards with muzzle velocity about 2,700 fps. The shot hit a few inches behind the ribs on the left side, traveled about 34-36 inches through the body taking out the liver and both lungs, and coming to rest under the armor plate in the front right shoulder.

The expanded diameter is .601" and recovered weight is 167.0 gr.

 

[HTR707]

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I'm not having any problems or surprises from my .277, 85 grain TSX or 95 grain TTSX's, when fired from my 6.8.

These were all recovered from hogs. The velocity averaged anywhere from 2350-3100, as some were shot with 11" suppressed SBR's and others with 18" barrel. In this cartridge, we worked with Barnes to assure that the bullet would be optimized to open at the velocity envelope most likely in various 6.8 rifles.

 

[lexluther]

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Well, the geico bit is cool, but are you the same EHG who has a MRS EHG that posted pics long ago? If so...I dont know what to say to describe your situation. Bitchen job and hot wife...I say this in the nicest way possible....bastard...

 

[sst04]

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180g SST shot from a 308. Recovered from a 200lb buck I shot yesterday,was about 95yds. There were what looked like 3 Exits in the skin and a lump. After removing the skin the jacket was between the skin and chest cavity, which was the lump. The rest of the exit wounds must have been the lead core and bones.

 

[Chucky]

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17 grain Hornady V-Max recovered out of a squirrel shot at 50 yards. Bullet fragments weighed 2.6 grains.

 

[mdesign]

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Here's a different kind of recovered bullet...I stuck this one to a metal plate at 400yds. 85gr TSX out of a 243 with a MV of 2980 fps. Never had one do that before.

 

[Ghogs Nightmare]

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These are all 200gr Accubonds recovered from my critters I got when I was hunting in South Africa. All shot from a Sendero Sf in 300RUM. Over 94.7Grs of Retumbo...Win mAg primer..Chrono'd ave of 3140 FPS. All were jus under the opposite hide. Most had a slight angle to the shot all under 100 yards with the exception of the zebra which was about 250.

 

[TresMon]

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Why are you guys shooting bullets designed for paper @ game? Not flaming or any thing for sure, just askin.

Anybody got any Berger HUNTING VLD;s they can post?

 

[coldboremiracle]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: TresMon</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
Why are you guys shooting bullets designed for paper @ game? Not flaming or any thing for sure, just askin.

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Cuz they kill shit, just fine.

 

[19818119]

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286gr Woodleigh PPSN @ 2400fps

 

[JSTARSZ]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: HTR707</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I'm not having any problems or surprises from my .277, 85 grain TSX or 95 grain TTSX's, when fired from my 6.8.

These were all recovered from hogs. The velocity averaged anywhere from 2350-3100, as some were shot with 11" suppressed SBR's and others with 18" barrel. In this cartridge, we worked with Barnes to assure that the bullet would be optimized to open at the velocity envelope most likely in various 6.8 rifles.
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those pictures of the Barnes TTSX's look just like the Barnes website pictures. I shot a 6.8mm 95 GR TTSX at a buck this year at 80 yards and got a through-through shot. The deer was angling away from me and I hit it in the heart/lung region and it went out the other side shoulder. The outgoing hole was amazing. It put that deer down in 5 steps as it rolled down the ridge towards me.

 

[TresMon]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: coldboremiracle</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: TresMon</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
Why are you guys shooting bullets designed for paper @ game? Not flaming or any thing for sure, just askin.

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Cuz they kill shit, just fine. </div></div>

My personal experience was epic failure on target bullets in game twice. No more for me. Mean while, back to the normal programming....

 

[LSOSGT1109]

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I've killed a shit load of deer with SMK's and Scenars and they all died very quickly and humanely! Many were DRT! Huge exit wounds and massive internal damage! I'm not saying that people haven't had bad experiences with them but I just don't see how based on my experiences with them!

 

[coldboremiracle]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: TresMon</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: coldboremiracle</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: TresMon</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
Why are you guys shooting bullets designed for paper @ game? Not flaming or any thing for sure, just askin.

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Cuz they kill shit, just fine. </div></div>

My personal experience was epic failure on target bullets in game twice. No more for me. Mean while, back to the normal programming.... </div></div>

Its strange, you see every bullet seems to have its own plans. Sometimes they do exactly what we want them to, and other times they almost seem to shy away from the target. I have seen and heard stories about every kind of bullet performing perfectly, and also horribly. So it would seem to me, that its not really up to us, its all up to the tiny high speed details of the impact. We've seen here that the "best" hunting bullets dont always outperform, and we have also seen the lowly match bullet devastate even the toughest of animals. I say, keep shooting what works for you, and what your rifle shoots best, because they will never do the job if they dont land in the right spot.

 

[psinclair]

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The right match bullets have worked well for me over the years. But, I've always promoted correct shot placement...or maybe I've just been lucky several hundred times.....grin!

I shot this 6X6 bull elk this past October with a single shot through both front shoulders with a 155gr scenar from my .308 at 320 meters as he was walking towards thick timber. The bullet broke the right front shoulder and exited through the left, leaving a 1" exit hole. He folded up on the spot and never took another step.

 

[psinclair]

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This mule deer buck probably weighed over 300 pounds on the hoof. I was lucky to get a live pic of him during bow season and later had the chance to take him with the rifle. The shot was 320 meters. I used the same .308 and load that I used on the elk with the same exact results. He was on the edge of some really thick brush and it was almost dark. I wanted him anchored right where he stood. A broadside shoulder shot did the trick and he never took a step after the hit.Bullet passed through and was not recovered..

 

[ubet]

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45 acp 230ranger T, out of a sig220 carry

 

[coldboremiracle]

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Here are couple more trickling in after the hunting season winds down around here. This was a Hornady 180gr BTSP interlock, shot at a mule deer at around 300 yds IIRC, just the jacket was left under the offside hide, and the rest danced across the ridge behind him. DRFT

 

[cardboardkiller]

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180 grain Accubond out of my TRG22.

I recovered it from this 260lb Kansas white tail that I made a frontal neck shot on at 275-ish yards. I was going for the brisket but he was lower in the field than I thought and I hit him about 4 inches up the neck.

 

[aaronraby1]

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the one on the left is a 180gr hornady SST from my 300 win mag recovered from a blue wildebeest at 260 yards. frontal quartering heart shot. the two on the right were out of my cape buffalo. 510 gr round nose sp. from my 458 win mag. shots were no more than 50 yards.

 

[Ritten]

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I've put two WT deer down so far this season with this round, but the third is the one I was able to recover. It came out of a 110lbs coy-dog that came running in to a fawn bleat call. 80yds and a full pass through. I found the bullet laying on the ground right next to the dog. 165gr Barnes TSX running 2630fps out of a 700LTR in .308win.

 

[Bill Larson]

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This is a good thread..... could make alot of hunters happy in the future and alot less game lost.I took some pics ( can`t seem to get them posted )of 2 bullets I recovered from a 200# WT shot at 35 yds. with a 30-06...into the chest..the bullets performed well as far as expandsion.. but niether bullet went through the deer... each were recovered just under the hide on the opp. side....can`t believe they would`nt go thru... so the deer absorbed tons of energy...???.. he took 1 leap and was done... but why was`nt he blown rite off his feet absorbing that kind of thrust...???
bill larson

 

[jayd4wg]

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LIghtfield 12ga 2-3/4" sabot (hybrid) fired from mossberg 500 trohpy slugster 24" rifled ported cantilever barrel. Bullet hit high back just behind shoulder and went thru the spine stopping under the skin on the off side. this is only the second time i've had a shotgun slug not blow completely thru. The first deer i ever hit with the lightfield, the slug was not recovered but left a 1" exit hole and made soup out of the lungs and liver, and ruptured the diaphragm. these slugs are JUST soft enough IMO.

 

[cattle buyer]

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Head on 167yd shot,went in high left split rib 3,4,5,6 into and was recovered next to cod sack. .25 wizzm coyote lite, factory 110 gr accubond. 175# , 2 yr whitetail opening day. Deer went down bang flop, 30 cal like kill. first recovered bullet out of 100's deer, was 06,308, for 30+ years. The 110 accubond an 120gr win pep's are sub moa in this gun both have produced 8 oneshot kills with no tracking, most do a little 25 cal dance.

 

[EricF517]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: mdesign</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Here's a different kind of recovered bullet...I stuck this one to a metal plate at 400yds. 85gr TSX out of a 243 with a MV of 2980 fps. Never had one do that before.

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How was the weight retention on that one?

 

[Arif]

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i went thorugh the whole thread hoping to see a picture of a 250 grain or 300 grain Scenar recovered, i am amazed that no one has recovered one, even though many hunters have used them on game

 

[aaronraby1]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Arif</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i went thorugh the whole thread hoping to see a picture of a 250 grain or 300 grain Scenar recovered, i am amazed that no one has recovered one, even though many hunters have used them on game </div></div>

not sure there would be much to recover on those... as far as i know, they arent really a "controlled expansion" bullet.

 

[coldboremiracle]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: richieraby</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Arif</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i went thorugh the whole thread hoping to see a picture of a 250 grain or 300 grain Scenar recovered, i am amazed that no one has recovered one, even though many hunters have used them on game </div></div>

not sure there would be much to recover on those... as far as i know, they arent really a "controlled expansion" bullet. </div></div>

There's also the likely possibility that they don't stop inside the animal. I understand pass-thru shots are quite common in the 33+ gentleman's calibers.

 

[Silver_Bullet_00]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: coldboremiracle</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: richieraby</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Arif</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i went thorugh the whole thread hoping to see a picture of a 250 grain or 300 grain Scenar recovered, i am amazed that no one has recovered one, even though many hunters have used them on game </div></div>

not sure there would be much to recover on those... as far as i know, they arent really a "controlled expansion" bullet. </div></div>

There's also the likely possibility that they don't stop inside the animal. I understand pass-thru shots are quite common in the 33+ gentleman's calibers. </div></div>

Yes they are, I would love to post a pic, but have always had pass thru shots, never recovered a bullet.

 

[DeepEastKilla]

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found a few 20 gauge slugs from winter when i was shooting at some water bottles on a snowbank. also got a bunch of recovered 22 rnds.

Front^

Back^

22s^

 

[Evolution 9]

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Speer Gold Dot 9mm 147 grain. The one on the left was fired out of my Glock 17 underwater. I'd be curious how much of that expansion happened inside the barrel. The others were fired into a kevlar vest.