Bullet Performance Database

[Kevin375]

Here are some more Degol bullets.
The recipe is always the same : Hornady Cases, Federal 215 GM primer, Reload Swiss 52 powder and the bullets go at around 2210-2220 f/s.

Degol Lion Load 500 gr recovered in an eland shot with a quartering toward shot at ~90 meters.

Weight retention : 489.90 gr = 98 %

Degol Lion Load 500 gr recovered in another eland with a quartering away shot at 173 meters.

Weight retention : 495.95 gr : 99.2 %


Degol Lion shot 500 gr recovered in a young kudu bull with a quartering toward shot between 50 to 60 meters.

Weight retention : 416.37 gr = 83.3 %

Degol Starkmantel 500 gr recovered in a giraffe with a quartering shot at ~40 meters.

Weight retention : 466.15 : 93.2 %. You can also compare the difference between a Starkmantel 500 gr out of the box in the middle and the Lion Load on the right.

 

[Hunter-Habib]

Prvi Partizan 173Gr round nosed soft point fired from my 7x57mm Mauser Churchill Gun Makers Model Deluxe at Axis stag. Broadside heart shot through shoulder bone/scapula.

Bullet was recovered from the interior side of the opposite shoulder. Stag went 14 yards before dropping stone dead.