I am not a professional photographer or even a talented amateur. If you want pretty gun pictures, go look at Oleg Volk’s site. I do play around with The Unforgiving Digital Camera quite a bit though, and occasionally I capture something kinda cool.

The first one is my response to the endless “9mm vs. .40 S&W vs. .45 ACP vs. .357 SIG vs. whatever” flame-wars found on gun boards across the Internet. It’s a 10mm Winchester Silvertip round next to a .416 Rigby cartridge loaded with a 410-grain Woodleigh solid.

And here’s the same 10mm round next to a recovered .416 solid. The Woodleigh bullet was fired into a sand pile and, after a LOT of digging, recovered. As you can see, the bullet’s surface has literally been sandblasted. Impressively, the big slug maintained its shape perfectly and penetrated deeply. Notice how the sand eroded away a ring of material around the bullet’s tip, but the tip itself is intact. Cool!

This is an alternate version of the previous picture, this time showing the other side of the .416 bullet. It could practically be reloaded and fired again. The Woodleigh solids use a heavy steel jacket over a lead core, making them virtually invincible. There’s a cutaway view here on the Woodleigh website.