Originally Posted By: JTPinTXSeveral years ago my daughter was 5, and about to start shooting deer with my CZ 223. I sectioned quite a few bullets like that, but took it one step further with the intention of finding the best bullet for her to shoot deer with out of a 12 twist.
I shot quite a few .224 bullets at 223 Rem velocities into wet newspaper. I standardized the way I did it. So many inches of newspaper in a certain size box, used a black trash bag in the box to hold the water in until it soaked into the paper. Same amount of water in each box, all that stuff. Then I shot bullets, several of each one tested. Then I would peel back the layers of newspaper, recording the depth of penetration, and also I think retained weight. I put all that data together in a chart.
I will see if I can remember to take a picture of that chart tonight and if I can I will post it up tomorrow. Pretty interesting results. The most impressive bullet was the CEB Raptor or Non Con, not sure which it was. It was bad to the bone though in a little rifle like that. I shot a couple deer with that bullet.
The bullet I ended up loading for her was the old discontinued 60 Nosler Solid Base. She killed several deer with that bullet until they were all gone. I think she will be shooting the Nosler 64 Bonded this year though.
That sounds like a lot of work and some serious dedication. That chart would be very cool to see.
