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Apex afterburner a few impact resistance results
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<blockquote data-quote="yorke-1" data-source="post: 2648142" data-attributes="member: 11960"><p>Now that things have calmed down a bit.......</p><p></p><p>I really like Fordy's tests, and they're not that far off from what I would have expected at those velocities. Every bullet has a velocity window. That's not a good thing, it's not a bad thing, it's just a thing. It's important to know where that threshold is for all the reasons Fordy, and others, have described.</p><p></p><p>I don't necessarily agree with saying the bullet failed, but that's a matter of perspective. The performance shown here obviously isn't desirable for hunters looking for a bullet capable of handling a 3800+ fps impact. For what it's worth, I don't recall Apex ever stating that 3800 fps was within the intended operating range of the Afterburner design. I didn't go and verify that, so I could be wrong. I know that the Haymaker bullet does have a published maximum recommended velocity range, so I don't believe that the velocity threshold for the Afterburner was intentionally withheld. It just hadn't been tested.</p><p></p><p>If I'm looking for a truck to pull a trailer, it's my responsibility to buy the appropriate equipment. If I'm only going to tow 5,000#, I can buy any full-size truck and be just fine. If I know I'm going to be dragging a 30' gooseneck with a bunch of equipment on there, I'm going to buy the right truck to pull that trailer. If I'm going to be consistently shooting bullets over 3800 fps, I'll just buy a bullet that I know is rated and proven (by whichever source I trust) to perform the way I want it to in that velocity range. A half-ton truck that can't pull a 25,000# trailer didn't fail, it was just asked to do a job outside of its intended use. A bullet that doesn't perform with a 3800+ fps impact didn't fail, it was just used outside of its intended application.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="yorke-1, post: 2648142, member: 11960"] Now that things have calmed down a bit....... I really like Fordy's tests, and they're not that far off from what I would have expected at those velocities. Every bullet has a velocity window. That's not a good thing, it's not a bad thing, it's just a thing. It's important to know where that threshold is for all the reasons Fordy, and others, have described. I don't necessarily agree with saying the bullet failed, but that's a matter of perspective. The performance shown here obviously isn't desirable for hunters looking for a bullet capable of handling a 3800+ fps impact. For what it's worth, I don't recall Apex ever stating that 3800 fps was within the intended operating range of the Afterburner design. I didn't go and verify that, so I could be wrong. I know that the Haymaker bullet does have a published maximum recommended velocity range, so I don't believe that the velocity threshold for the Afterburner was intentionally withheld. It just hadn't been tested. If I'm looking for a truck to pull a trailer, it's my responsibility to buy the appropriate equipment. If I'm only going to tow 5,000#, I can buy any full-size truck and be just fine. If I know I'm going to be dragging a 30' gooseneck with a bunch of equipment on there, I'm going to buy the right truck to pull that trailer. If I'm going to be consistently shooting bullets over 3800 fps, I'll just buy a bullet that I know is rated and proven (by whichever source I trust) to perform the way I want it to in that velocity range. A half-ton truck that can't pull a 25,000# trailer didn't fail, it was just asked to do a job outside of its intended use. A bullet that doesn't perform with a 3800+ fps impact didn't fail, it was just used outside of its intended application. [/QUOTE]
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