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Badlands Precision Bullets thread - From BC to terminal ballistics
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<blockquote data-quote="Trigger24" data-source="post: 2073339" data-attributes="member: 115591"><p>Just some food for thought here guys. Tipped bullets have tended to exhibit more stability than the calculations show. This is due to the lightweight polymer tip, the bullet acts as though it's only the length of the copper portion of the bullet. In this case the tip is aluminum, so not as light weight as a polymer tip, but still can have some of the same effect. So if you run the stability calculation using a tip length of half what the actual tip length is, and hope that gives a pretty good approximation, you get a stability factor of about 1.4 at 20 degrees F and 29.92 pressure. Probably would work just fine. But Badlands of course can't tell you that, because if you try it and shoot a game animal and have a less than stellar experience, it's a bad deal for them. The bullet gets the blame. But if 1.4 is enough stability and you have the case to push it, it could be a killing machine. Who knows. What do I know. I leave this for the smart people to figure out. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trigger24, post: 2073339, member: 115591"] Just some food for thought here guys. Tipped bullets have tended to exhibit more stability than the calculations show. This is due to the lightweight polymer tip, the bullet acts as though it's only the length of the copper portion of the bullet. In this case the tip is aluminum, so not as light weight as a polymer tip, but still can have some of the same effect. So if you run the stability calculation using a tip length of half what the actual tip length is, and hope that gives a pretty good approximation, you get a stability factor of about 1.4 at 20 degrees F and 29.92 pressure. Probably would work just fine. But Badlands of course can't tell you that, because if you try it and shoot a game animal and have a less than stellar experience, it's a bad deal for them. The bullet gets the blame. But if 1.4 is enough stability and you have the case to push it, it could be a killing machine. Who knows. What do I know. I leave this for the smart people to figure out. :D [/QUOTE]
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