Bloodline bullets

[1fullmag]

Has anybody tried to do anything with these yet?

[pitted bore]

Has anybody tried to do anything with these yet?

1fullmag-

I don't recall seeing anything reported on this site for Bloodline bullets, whether reloading, performance on paper, performance on water jugs, performance in the field, etc. Your inquiry may the first mention of them here.

However, Bloodline bullets are produced for Knight by Lehigh, a company that produces a variety of interesting all-brass bullets. (Link to Knight-Lehigh arrangement description).

Lehigh does not show or describe any .451 or .452 bullets on their website: Lehigh Bullets. I suspect they may make some .452 bullets, but their production all goes to Knight under their agreement. The Knight website shows the bullet diameters for some of their saboted projectiles: Bloodline bullets

Here's the list of their saboted bullets, using their designation of caliber for the ML bore dia & bullet weight:

• .45/185 - .45 caliber; bullet dia not stated, probably .400 (brown sabot)
• .45/200 - .45 caliber; bullet dia not stated, probably .400 (brown sabot)
• .50/220 - .50 caliber; bullet dia .458, (red sabot)
• .50/250 - .50 caliber; bullet dia .452, (orange sabot)
• .50/275 - .50 caliber; bullet dia .458, (red sabot)
• .50/300 - .50 caliber; bullet dia .458, (red sabot)
• .52/220 - .52 caliber; bullet dia .458, (silver sabot)
• .52/275 - .52 caliber; bullet dia .458, (silver sabot)
• .52/300 - .52 caliber; bullet dia .458, (silver sabot)w
• .54/325 - .54 caliber; bullet dia not stated, probably .50 (purple sabot)

Although they may not be manufactured by Lehigh, the Knight line up of "Red Hot" saboted bullets may utilize some .451 bullets, based on the orange sabot color; their boat-tail bullets in the blue sabots are all .451.

Lehigh bullets have been the subject of some inquiries in the 450B Reloading forum. Some of these threads are, in chronological order:

• Swaging Bore Runner type 458 Solids Dec 24, 2009
• Anyone else looking for a SOLID? Apr 20, 2010
• Lehigh bullets? Jun 06, 2011
• Anybody play with lehigh bullets? Jul 07, 2011
• Email to Lehigh bullets Jul 24, 2011

The 50/250 .452 bullet looks interesting as a possible 450B bullet. However, the list price of about $26 for 20 bullets sort of discourages experimentation by the average member of this forum. (If you would care to send me a couple hundred Lehigh bullets, I'll get right on a project just as soon as the four feet of snow on the local range melts a bit. -- grin)

Here's a link to a photobucket video showing a .458 300-grain Lehigh bullet hitting milk jugs from a muzzleloader at 1900 fps, which is a velocity that can be achieved with that wt bullet in the 450B. If I've counted jugs correctly, it goes through five-&-one-half or six jugs. Lehigh Video
It appears to me that there's a grand piano located directly behind the right-hand sawhorse.

--Bob
edited for spelling

[Hoot]

Not seeing the video using Firefox 20.0

With all due respect to Lehigh, we already have the less expensive Barnes XPB bullets that fly very accurate and open like a dream out to 180 yds in water jugs. Probably further if you hit bone in an animal or cartilage plate in a hog.

Hoot

[1fullmag]

Good point hoot those bloodlines just look so cool...

[bigboreshooter]

Leigh bullets has a stainless steel tipped copper solid that I want for a super penetrator round. But thief smallest is a 350 gr in .458 and it's long. Cut it to 200 grains and swag to .452 it would be awesome.

[wildcatter]

Good point hoot those bloodlines just look so cool...

They do look Cool, but they are very "Expensively" Cool and prolly won't give you any advantage, but Hey, we're Americans and sometime I just want what I want, just because..

..t

[1fullmag]

Kinda like the time I decided I had to have the 450bm for bear hunting even though I had a 300sm, 270win, 45-70, and 12ga slug gun in the safe... Lol

[pitted bore]

Not seeing the video using Firefox 20.0 ...

Hoot-

(I'm also running Firefox 20.0. The video opens in a window inside photobucket.com. The video indicates it''s using Adobe Flash player. My version is 11,3,300,271; that's a couple of versions short of the latest version 11.6.602.180.)

Below is a composite image of three screen shots from the video, in case it gets pulled or viewers can't see it.

I'll have to revise downward my estimate of penetration to four-and-one-half jugs. There's no indication of the distance between the muzzle and the first jug.
--Bob
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Water jugs: Lehigh/Bloodline 300 grain .458 bullet

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[Hoot]

Should have replied sooner that I got it to play on a PC at work. I had forgotten your remarks in your post and as the video starts up, I'm like, "That looks like a grand piano." "Nah, that doesn't make sense."

They definitely get the job done. Kinda cute that they used red food coloring in the water, for effect.

Hoot