The one that almost got away

[Kurt]

Brian.

The more I look at that bullet the more I feel that that bullet was drawn out like pulling wire through a draw die. It was just a matter of a bullet to soft driven to hard with a duplex load that bumped up before it started to move into the throat and skipped over the lands getting stretched. You can see how high the land cuts are on the front of the ogive that it got bumped pretty hard.
I dont see the normal signs of gas cuts that look like the normal pattern of gas cuts. This bullet looks like it just about got pulled apart.
Below are some .308's shot with a .30-30 with a hard Lyman #2 alloy and they stretched longer then the unfired bullet was. The three to the left ended up like they are after reducing the load.


and this is what a normal gas cut pattern will look like. By the way they were shot with smokeless