SVT-THUNDER
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Had a big tree fall a couple of weeks ago after a few rounds of tornados and flooding with straight line winds. I had to resharpen/swap chainsaw blades after about every hour of cutting with an old but well desired and very mean Husqvarna 257. This Wood is hard. This was the last stump my saw could cut at it was the largest against the huge rootball. Blades were shot and so was I.
After a few days, I thought I’d fire a few rounds at it and see what happened. I was trying to shoot close to the edges to see if it would split at all. I only fired a single shot from the 460 at 28 yards that day. That’s the edge but to the left. Didn’t mean to hit the very edge so it was a bad shot.
The next day I grabbed a 9, a 45 and the 460. Threw one FMJ in the 9. A couple in the 45 and used my Hornady FTX 460 rounds (poly tip HP) with a full cylinder. Love shooting that gun. Well, the picture speaks for itself. I was surprised but not totally shocked at the FMJ 9 and 45. Simply left dents basically. I didn’t shoot hard cast 460 rounds simply because I’m very accurate with the FTX (for me anyway). Just thought I’d share. The slow mo video of the 460 showed wood flying way past me that I didn’t see in real time. I mean a lot and high. That was pretty cool. But it cut off short after my phone ran out of space. So one cool shot of debris is all I grabbed since I had the camera zoomed in on me and the gun. Grouping of the 5 mag shots are just shy of 3” size to side and 5” long. I couldn’t see a hit where the wood had blown the bark off so I measured inside the circle. Pretty neat to see such a hard wood shred. I thought so anyway.
After a few days, I thought I’d fire a few rounds at it and see what happened. I was trying to shoot close to the edges to see if it would split at all. I only fired a single shot from the 460 at 28 yards that day. That’s the edge but to the left. Didn’t mean to hit the very edge so it was a bad shot.
The next day I grabbed a 9, a 45 and the 460. Threw one FMJ in the 9. A couple in the 45 and used my Hornady FTX 460 rounds (poly tip HP) with a full cylinder. Love shooting that gun. Well, the picture speaks for itself. I was surprised but not totally shocked at the FMJ 9 and 45. Simply left dents basically. I didn’t shoot hard cast 460 rounds simply because I’m very accurate with the FTX (for me anyway). Just thought I’d share. The slow mo video of the 460 showed wood flying way past me that I didn’t see in real time. I mean a lot and high. That was pretty cool. But it cut off short after my phone ran out of space. So one cool shot of debris is all I grabbed since I had the camera zoomed in on me and the gun. Grouping of the 5 mag shots are just shy of 3” size to side and 5” long. I couldn’t see a hit where the wood had blown the bark off so I measured inside the circle. Pretty neat to see such a hard wood shred. I thought so anyway.
