I took the pictures of the 250grn bullets and have them at home. I will post them with weights when i get home tonight. I do want to mention some stuff below. Please read.
If you are looking for a conventional mushroomed bullet the Lehigh will not show it, conventional thought is out the door. The Lehigh bullet is designed to react differently than a conventional mushrooming bullet. The petals of the hollow point are designed to remain in place and open slowly as they penetrate through denser muscle tissue and or bone. They are designed to open rapidly when the fluids of the organs is contacted. The petals will open to approximately 40 degrees and then separate from the bullets. The six petals then continue out and in a spiral course creating a larger wound diameter or wound channel. The radiating petals will puncture delicate organs in the cavity and create additional hydrostatic shock. The petals do not have sufficient weight to travel a great distance, usually about 10 inches in organ tissue. Because the petals are so light they will and do loose velocity and energy rapidly in the organ tissue. If they make it to muscle tissue, the tissue is so much denser it slows and halts the flight even more rapidly.
While all of this is happening the projectile sized core, with it’s now flat meplat continues through the animal until it exits or expends all of its energy in the animal.
In the case of the Lehigh’s used during this hunt, all of the 200 grain Lehigh’s did exit and 2 of the 250 grain bullets that were shot on a quartering angle, were found up against the under side of the hide on the opposite side of the animal.
While these bullets performed near flawlessly on this hunt, further testing and reporting is warranted by other individuals.
