Post by picklehead on Aug 20, 2016 15:28:56 GMT -5
Ive been goofing around all day and was 68 degrees here this morning at 6am. I took off and got the 6.5 rem mag dialed in and had to move the zero so the load would jive with the BDC in my Nikon scope,,, out to 400 yards. Three shots in less than 2" at the end.
Next playing was messing with Blue-Dot and talking about if the NBT would BLOW UP at 100 yards on a 5 gal bucket of water, laid long ways. Well that didn't pan out because I must have put a lid in the trash. No big deal and went a tad further on the test. I had an empty refrigerant drum and filled it with water.
Our bet was 2 dollars and a cold beer that the 100 grain NBT, would not pass thru the steel drum and 1 foot of water. Well, I said yea and he said NO. Both had our doubts and was just shooting the bull to each other. I shot it and WOW WOW, both of us was amazed from the result. The NBT hit about 1/4" below the welded seam in the middle as I tried and the,,,, TRYING to exit hit the seam on the back side, PERFECT.
THE NBT almost made it thru and made a bulge on the back side and water was barley trickling out. My FPS was off from what I stated in another post by almost 110 FPS and ran three across the chrony. It was 2878 FPS for average and that's fine. Maybe people push the NBT's to fast and I truly think this load will have NO PROBLEM, with exiting a 75 to 165 pound white tail.
Just playing and learning, but I see no reason that this pill, will not drop a deer in its tracks in the 6.5 cal,,,,, if kept tamed down ,,, out to 400 yards easy. I wouldn't bet more than a few dollars that the bullet would have exited the drum, if not hitting the seam. That's metal, one foot of water and metal again. Seems to me the 6.5 NBT is like the 120 NBT in my 7mag and never recovered a pill at any distance when hitting a med size deer.