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<blockquote data-quote="Engineering101" data-source="post: 935735" data-attributes="member: 63138"><p><span style="font-size: 12px">For the several hundred years before 1882, bullets were just hunks of lead. For a short while they were even square hunks of lead - but the flight path of those bullets was found to be somewhat unpredictable.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">With the advent of the copper jacketed bullet in 1882 things got a whole lot better. And today there are all kinds of bullets designed for all kinds of purposes. You have your match target bullets, you have your varmit bullets, you have your solid copper bullets including CNC machined bullets, you have your bonded core bullets and you still have lead bullets.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">The AMAX itself is somewhat of an advancement in the tolerances achieved. It is accurate and it will kill stuff better than a hunk of lead. I suppose you would have a hard time finding a modern rifle bullet that would not kill a deer or a caribou for that matter. So we are debating the fine points here.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">If the world went to hell and I had to grab a rifle and head to the woods I'd take the 22LR. No problem killing game with that. I'd have to be more careful but I wouldn't starve. So I suppose that makes me somewhat of a snob to say I wouldn't use an AMAX on game. I should probably refine that a bit and say I wouldn't use an AMAX on game as long as I have my other favorite bullets available.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">This may soon be a moot point however since I seem to recall an announcement from Hornady a few months back that they had stopped making AMAXs so they could concentrate on their other bullets which were being gobbled up as fast as they could make them. Sooo... good luck finding those AMAXs. </span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Engineering101, post: 935735, member: 63138"] [SIZE=3]For the several hundred years before 1882, bullets were just hunks of lead. For a short while they were even square hunks of lead - but the flight path of those bullets was found to be somewhat unpredictable.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]With the advent of the copper jacketed bullet in 1882 things got a whole lot better. And today there are all kinds of bullets designed for all kinds of purposes. You have your match target bullets, you have your varmit bullets, you have your solid copper bullets including CNC machined bullets, you have your bonded core bullets and you still have lead bullets.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]The AMAX itself is somewhat of an advancement in the tolerances achieved. It is accurate and it will kill stuff better than a hunk of lead. I suppose you would have a hard time finding a modern rifle bullet that would not kill a deer or a caribou for that matter. So we are debating the fine points here.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]If the world went to hell and I had to grab a rifle and head to the woods I'd take the 22LR. No problem killing game with that. I'd have to be more careful but I wouldn't starve. So I suppose that makes me somewhat of a snob to say I wouldn't use an AMAX on game. I should probably refine that a bit and say I wouldn't use an AMAX on game as long as I have my other favorite bullets available.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]This may soon be a moot point however since I seem to recall an announcement from Hornady a few months back that they had stopped making AMAXs so they could concentrate on their other bullets which were being gobbled up as fast as they could make them. Sooo... good luck finding those AMAXs. [/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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