264 Win Mag can some one explain why it flattens boat tails?

[Mickey D]

I would like to know the rifle and bullet he was using when this happened.

 

[ICANHITHIMMAN]

I would like to know the rifle and bullet he was using when this happened.

I never said he had it happen, just that he said he will not shoot BT bullets because he read that they would not work do to the round being overbore and flatting the BT.

The rifle is a Rem 700, Kreger barrel and Bell and carlson stock pretty simple and nice rifle. The guys not a BS artist just miss informed is all and I did not want to say he was wrong at our first meeting.

Jon

 

[Mickey D]

ok thanks for the reply

 

[Code4]

It didnt seam right to me but he was convinced and so was another fellow.

Sounds like they were trying to 'wind you up'.

 

[ICANHITHIMMAN]

Sounds like they were trying to 'wind you up'.

LOL no. They are stand up guys.

 

[rscott5028]

I had a friend that's a Marine try to explain how the M16 was specifically designed for the bullets to tumble end over end through the air so that they'd be more destructive on impact.

I suppose they do that with the 115 DTAC and a zero twist for close quarters?

 

[liltank]

I had a friend that's a Marine try to explain how the M16 was specifically designed for the bullets to tumble end over end through the air so that they'd be more destructive on impact.

I suppose they do that with the 115 DTAC and a zero twist for close quarters?

mmmmmmmm.... I'll take wrong answer for $200 Alex!

Tank

 

[BountyHunter]

So I was talking with a guy at work and he was telling be that beacuse of the 264 win mag is considered a "overbore" round that it will flatten the boat tails of all bullets so he only shoots flat base bullets?

I'm sure some one else has heard this or maybe seen it I dont know it was news to me I would like to here more as I have a barrled action sitting in the gun safe and was planning on using 140g VLDs.

Jon

That's easy, his "headspacing" is by about 10 degrees from a plumb bubble.

 

[Mickey D]

I have a sil who sometimes shoots a m4 with 77g smks. I don't think I have ever heard him say he had a tumbling problem, but I will ask the next time he e-mails...

 

[liltank]

I have a sil who sometimes shoots a m4 with 77g smks. I don't think I have ever heard him say he had a tumbling problem, but I will ask the next time he e-mails...

They don't tumble in the air. They tumble in the body after impact.

Tank

 

[Mickey D]

he has been using a 300 win mag lately.220g smk. they work good.

 

[ICANHITHIMMAN]

That's easy, his "headspacing" is by about 10 degrees from a plumb bubble.

The guy actual has half a brain and a metal skull. He got hit by a car changing the tire on his truck when he was 18. I think he is in his 50s now and not supposed to even be alive. I think he just has the info wrong he shoots a 45-110 sharps and most of his experience has been with that. I think this is his first high veloicty LR rifle and he has some pre concived notionts based on cast bullets or something.

 

[elkaholic]

There is only one reasonable answer. He has a little lube on his primer!....Rich

 

[Silverback7]

So I was talking with a guy at work and he was telling be that beacuse of the 264 win mag is considered a "overbore" round that it will flatten the boat tails of all bullets so he only shoots flat base bullets?

I'm sure some one else has heard this or maybe seen it I dont know it was news to me I would like to here more as I have a barrled action sitting in the gun safe and was planning on using 140g VLDs.

Jon

You dont need that ***, I'll buy it from ya when I get home, is that the FN???