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2005 Wildcat Bullets Price List.....
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<blockquote data-quote="3sixbits" data-source="post: 68718" data-attributes="member: 3661"><p>What is the difference between a hollow point and and open point bullet? It starts with the core seating process. The open point or tip is not the same as a hollow point in that the the core(lead)is seated square to the jacket no lead flow in to the tip, when the bullet goes into the point forming die. The point is formed and there is a cavity of no lead between the squared seated core and the end or tip of the bullet. THE HOLLOW POINT is different in that the lead is all the way to the end of the bullet tip or nose and then a punch is inserted into the open or folded tip of the bullet creating the hollow point. The true hollow point has different flight charistics than the open tip design. Most or all the match type bullets that the manufacturers sell are really open tip and not hollow point. Why then do they call them HP's? Why do people refer to the .45 COLT as the .45 long COLT? PERHAPS AS MANY OF US HAVE FOUND IN LIFE, that ignorance is bliss and why rock the boat? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="3sixbits, post: 68718, member: 3661"] What is the difference between a hollow point and and open point bullet? It starts with the core seating process. The open point or tip is not the same as a hollow point in that the the core(lead)is seated square to the jacket no lead flow in to the tip, when the bullet goes into the point forming die. The point is formed and there is a cavity of no lead between the squared seated core and the end or tip of the bullet. THE HOLLOW POINT is different in that the lead is all the way to the end of the bullet tip or nose and then a punch is inserted into the open or folded tip of the bullet creating the hollow point. The true hollow point has different flight charistics than the open tip design. Most or all the match type bullets that the manufacturers sell are really open tip and not hollow point. Why then do they call them HP's? Why do people refer to the .45 COLT as the .45 long COLT? PERHAPS AS MANY OF US HAVE FOUND IN LIFE, that ignorance is bliss and why rock the boat? [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] [/QUOTE]
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