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Dennis Kautz provided this bullet. Actual weight is 300.1 grain. The bullet was smooth sized to fit between the lands, so it could be easily pushed down the barrel to the powder. Still, the bullet was plenty tight so it had to stay in place.
The distance between the rifle, and the bottles is 25 yard.
The bullet blew through every bottle; blew the phone book maybe ten feet back, and fell out of the book onto the ground. It now weighs 296.7 grain.
After shooting the bullet into the carpet, plywood, and bottles, it was examined for rifling marks, and expansion. Note the rifling engraved in the bullet. Fifty grain Blackhorn powder was enough to bump the bullet into the rifling. Is it strange the bullet is soft enough to be expanded into the rifling, but didn't expand much from the impact with the bottles?