Varmint knockers and bbt

[oneshot61]

I got curious about cutting a 3/32 x in the nose of the varmint knockers 33 grain and the new 36 grain bbt hp Rick Morrill sent me. On the left is the standard unmodified bullet while next to it is the bullet with an x cut into the nose. Shot at 940 fps out of my modded armada into a 5 gallon bucket of water. Quite a difference

 

[TrinityMaker]

If those cuts in the nose aren't perfectly concentric, your accuracy will suffer GREATLY! I realize the benefit just from looking at the picture. And within 35-40 yards, the accuracy issues would be minimal. But long range accuracy could potentially be garbage if the modifications to the nose weren't concentric. 

Do those slugs come with that modification, or did you do that yourself? If they came modified, them more than likely there's a concentric modification inside of the swagging dye, and the accuracy issue would be absent or negligible. 

 

[oneshot61]

I agree totally about the accuracy issue. My thought was to see the results, then I’ll build a jig for it. I’ll test them this coming weekend for accuracy if I don’t get rained out. I’m thinking under 50 yards they will be devastating. The varmint knockers I’ve shot 20 in a quarter sized group @ 90 yards. That was on 2 fills. I just received the bbt so no accuracy testing yet out of my armada. 

 

[stoti]

I’ve shot lots and lots of Varmint Knockers and can assure you the combination of soft lead and huge hollow points are devastating on game animals. No need to do anything to the slug and risk losing accuracy. My son shot a ground squirrel at 120yds last week and almost blew it into two pieces. 
Stoti

 

[oneshot61]

I agree the ones I have are the 2S nose. I also have some of his wide hollowpoint, but I could not resist testing them along with the BBT . I’ve shot his 33 grain near 1100 fps and they were still accurate at 50 yards very stable in the green mountain barrel . 

 

[stoti]

My bad. I don't shoot any of the 2-S hollow points. Dale just made me a special prototype batch of 32.8gr. with an even larger hollow point than his big hollow points. They shoot almost exactly the same and are even more devastating on game. Have a good one. Stoti