I keep.....

by RayLee, Tuesday, March 14, 2023, 19:12 (555 days ago) @ JimT

blocks and chunks and rounds of stovewood length boles propped in the utility crawlspace between the domicile proper and the cellar where the raycave is located for bullet testing and refreshing carry ammo without having to travel to the range. I fire squarely and directly down into rings/grain.

Some loads surprise me. Recently, a cylinderful of "softball" 185 gr. fmj .45 at just under 800 fps. handily wrecked and split a chunk so that I could pull it apart by hand and see the bullet tracks. A very sedate italian .32 long 98 gr. fmj that did not previously perceptibly move the block at all bore 1.5" deeper than the .45s that wrecked it.