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Nosler E-TIP extended range accuracy
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<blockquote data-quote="Michael Courtney" data-source="post: 835368" data-attributes="member: 28191"><p>We measured the G1 BC of the 150 grain ETip in .308 to be 0.324, which is much lower than Nosler's claim of 0.469. With a BC this low, we determined that there are much better bullet choices for hunting with a .308, even at moderate ranges.</p><p></p><p>See: <a href="http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a555975.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a555975.pdf</a></p><p></p><p>One other concern is that Nosler only uses 10% expansion to determine the lower limit of their expansion window. A .308 bullet that has only expanded by 10% is only .339 inches in diameter, so we felt that 2200 fps is a much more reasonable estimate of the lower velocity needed to achieve adequate expansion. </p><p></p><p>The combination of a much lower BC than advertised, and a higher expansion threshold make this bullet a poor choice for anything but short range applications.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Michael Courtney, post: 835368, member: 28191"] We measured the G1 BC of the 150 grain ETip in .308 to be 0.324, which is much lower than Nosler's claim of 0.469. With a BC this low, we determined that there are much better bullet choices for hunting with a .308, even at moderate ranges. See: [url]http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a555975.pdf[/url] One other concern is that Nosler only uses 10% expansion to determine the lower limit of their expansion window. A .308 bullet that has only expanded by 10% is only .339 inches in diameter, so we felt that 2200 fps is a much more reasonable estimate of the lower velocity needed to achieve adequate expansion. The combination of a much lower BC than advertised, and a higher expansion threshold make this bullet a poor choice for anything but short range applications. [/QUOTE]
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