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Pics of Berger Bullets NOT Performing????
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<blockquote data-quote="Pdvdh" data-source="post: 849003" data-attributes="member: 4191"><p>Tipped bullets do have the tips installed against a much larger meplat, don't they? I'm not aware of any 0.025" diameter tips being marketed on tipped bullets. The tips are larger in diameter to ensure this method of initiating expansion is reliable. Your statement about small tips the size of the opening in the meplat of a VLD type jacketed bullet might be correct. But nobody manufactures tips that small in diameter, to my knowledge.</p><p></p><p>Any reference material to support this superiority of tipless bullet expansion? </p><p></p><p>I am doubting the blanket statement that tipless bullets are more reliable initiators of expansion with lead core jacketed bullets, than tipped bullets where the base of the tips in the bullets have tremendously greater area (and force upon impact with the animal) to initiate bullet expansion. </p><p></p><p>In my own experiences, tipped bullets have been more reliable in initiating expansion than small meplat VLD-type jacketed bullets. The BC of the tipped bullets may not be as high as a tipless bullet, but the expansion on game has proven more reliable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pdvdh, post: 849003, member: 4191"] Tipped bullets do have the tips installed against a much larger meplat, don't they? I'm not aware of any 0.025" diameter tips being marketed on tipped bullets. The tips are larger in diameter to ensure this method of initiating expansion is reliable. Your statement about small tips the size of the opening in the meplat of a VLD type jacketed bullet might be correct. But nobody manufactures tips that small in diameter, to my knowledge. Any reference material to support this superiority of tipless bullet expansion? I am doubting the blanket statement that tipless bullets are more reliable initiators of expansion with lead core jacketed bullets, than tipped bullets where the base of the tips in the bullets have tremendously greater area (and force upon impact with the animal) to initiate bullet expansion. In my own experiences, tipped bullets have been more reliable in initiating expansion than small meplat VLD-type jacketed bullets. The BC of the tipped bullets may not be as high as a tipless bullet, but the expansion on game has proven more reliable. [/QUOTE]
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