That`s cool!! Good job, your going to love shooting pins

Congrats. Accuracy and mass at reasonable velocity do the trick. It is a lot of fun, I just don't get to do it very often.

I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you!

(OK, so this is mock indignation. For those of you who don't know, Charles wrote an article for The Cast Bullet many years ago entitled "452423 I Love You" in which he summarized several decades of experience with the 452423 in various forms of .45 caliber sidearms. His article served as an avenue for the two of us to get acquainted, first through the Cast Bullet Association, and later online, and I like to poke my friend in the ribs every so often just to make sure he knows what a smart-ass I can be.....).

Charles, the fact that you were successful with a .45 surprises me not in the least.

First of all, Congratulations on the win.
Momentum and meplat face prove their worth once again

Watch out for the 38 SPL shooters, weak enough load and one may get an inelastic collision with the pin and the bullet comes back from whence it was launched.

This is from reading (not personal experience) back when the bowling pin game first started and folks figured an accurate flat face of a WC load would be the key to winning matches.

Having caught one in the chest and one in the face I can assure you inelastic collisions are not one of those pure theory things. This is especially clear to me because I found both bullets this spring and interestingly enough, both are almost perfectly rounded in the front.

One cast, one jacketed, both 38 SPL mild load two different impact surfaces and separated by 10-15 years in time. One bullet is in the console of my truck as I type and one is currently misplaced

A buddy and I discovered you can do a reasonable facsimile of a pin shoot using chunks of split firewood. Yeah, we looked all "Duck Dynasty" doing it that way, but of course we didn't care...

-AaronB