Thor Bullets
Thor™ Lightning 297 Grain Hollow Points - .50 Caliber
Thor™ Lightning 297 Grain Hollow Points - .50 Caliber
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Thor™ Lightning Bullets are a one-size-fits-all bullet. These bullets are tighter fitting, but no bore specific sizing or sizing packs are needed.
The Thor™ Bullets are high performance, full-bore muzzleloading bullets. The .50 caliber ballistic tip bullets feature a 100% copper construction and are manufactured by Barnes™ using their X Bullet® platform along with their proven expansion technology. The Thor™ Bullet is proven to be extremely accurate at long ranges, while providing lethal expansion on deer and elk-sized game.
The Thor™ Bullet's hollow base expands when the powder goes off, both gripping the rifling and sealing the bore. These bullets actually shoot 75-100 FPS faster than a Powerbelt, due to their superb sealing power. If it is a quality conical you are looking for, that won’t fragment into a million pieces, the Thor™ Bullet is the way to go. This bullet has a Ballistic Coefficient of .200.
**Legal in California, Washington, Colorado. Not legal in Idaho or Oregon yet.
Engineered to be Better!
Thor bullets are the industry leader in terminal performance and weight retention. Our bullets feature a true copper gas seal to ensure a precision fit to your barrel.
Got these as I wanted to get away from the plastics skirts on other bullets and away from lead if I could.
Googled all copper bullet for muzzleloader and found Thor Bullets.
I love the marketing and took a chance.... I am beyond excited with the performance. Have not shot anything but a target so far, but they were super easy to reload. First one goes down like its buttered, second shot just as easy.
I got up to 6 shots without cleaning the barrel cause I was curious what it would do, and you could feel it get a little resistant loading, but it still went down easier than the second round from the plastic sabots that I was shooting. The 6th shot busted a watermelon sized rock at 40-50 yards dead center and the shot before it hit the small gatorade bottle I set out at 100 yards.
At this moment I am confident in shooting these bullets and will provide another review once I take a deer with them.
Equipment: CVA Wolf with 100 grains of Triple 7 ffg powder.
Disclaimer: The heavy bullet and 100 grains of powder will rock your shoulder. Though it is still shootable, just not what you want to line in haha I was not expecting it as I was using a 240 grain bullet before, and definitely noticed the change.
But I accidently grabbed a speed loader with last year's 85 grains of powder measured out and I could have shot that all day long without noticing, so I might be dropping my powder load down next year to 85-90 grains.