How are Ballistic Tip Bullets Performance in various Mediums

[Triple Deuce]

If I understand the literature for Ballistic Tip bullets , these bullets Will basically fracture into small pieces when impacting a grape. What happens when it impacts different surfaces such as the ground, small trees,water, heavy bone? I

 

[REDGUN]

What caliber are you talking about? Some are for varmints, some are for hunting. The hunting BT's work well on deer sized game, at the very least.

 

[garyw]

i shoot a lot of red foxes here in the uk.one of my favourite walk round guns is a tikka in .17 rem with 20 vmaxs ,when hit the foxes just crumple up in a heap ,very rarely does the vmax exit the target.the fox when picked up and shook is like a bag of soup.
the vmaxs disintegrate -must be like a fragmentation grenade going off.the same applies with my .22br with 50gn vmax not a lot of internals left in one piece and big holes if they exit,
i would not like to take one in the knee cap!

 

[stacy]

I shoot the 90gr hunting BT in 6mm they work well on deer and excellent groups on paper also.

 

[jonbearman]

OP,you wanted to know what would happen if the tip hits various things inparticular the ground or whatever. They would(should) disintegrate or break up exposing the hollow point as intended.Hope that helps answer the question.

 

[alf]

I think you got your bullets mixed up:

http://www.barnesbullets.com/videos/grape_logo_new.wmv

 

[Bulletman]

If you ignore deflecting angles are are talking in generalities, any bullet at "normal" hunting impact velocities will basically expand/fragment faster and more violently given a harder impact media. Given that the ground should be "harder" than a grape then the bullet should fragment more upon ground impact than a grape impact. There are however many variables that contribute/detract to/from bullet fragmentation.

 

[wboggs]

BT Hunting bullets do not fragment when used on game. I have seen several hundred deer taken with them, many penetrated completely. Just keep them below their design limits of 3100fps and they are very good.

 

[Joe C]

When I lived down south I used BT's exclusively for deer. Never lost one and I shot a lot of deer with them. Also never recovered more than fragments except on neck shots where it blew out the other side. But then I moved to NE where the deer are much larger... after loosing one deer with my 7RM and a properly placed broadside shot and having to chase one for miles I realized that bigger game required a better bullet design for my .308 and 7RM. This year I'm going to the Barnes but have been using Hornady Interlocks.

Personally I think they are a great bullet for smaller deer and varmints but won't be using them for deer here in NE again. The buck I had to chase took two shots. The first was quartering and the BT basically blew up on his rib cage. The second was a texas heart shot. It was a 140g at 3000fps.

 

[wboggs]

Interesting results by Joe. Same bullet, different results. The deer we use them on are small and mv is usually around 2900 so impact velocity is less than that.
No question that the Barnes is a superb bullet. I have used them since the grooved design came out. Very accurate, take any angled shot you want.