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Badlands Precision Bullets thread - From BC to terminal ballistics
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<blockquote data-quote="nralifer" data-source="post: 2686851" data-attributes="member: 94556"><p>From the measurements you provided, I don't think we could offer a bullet that would be substantially higher in performance to justify the price of development and Swiss lathe manufacture. To make a high BC bullet from copper you need to satisfy 3 requirements. A longer ogive, a longer boat tail and minimize skin drag. In our case we also have a complex proprietary mathematical function describing the ogival shape which also adds to the BC. All these things add up to a longer bullet because copper is less dense than lead. In terms of sales, we don't see a 90 or 100 gr 6.5 bullet for the Grendel AR platform selling very well or having a high BC because of the severe restraints on completed round OAL posed by the short magazine. In a bolt action, there is nothing one can do with a Grendel that you couldn't do better with a 6.5x47 Lap or 6.5 Creed. Right now our competitors have their light weight 6.5 bullets priced at about $1.10/ bullet. That is not competitive with the 107gr Sierra which sells for less than half that amount (approximately $0.50/bullet). The #1 enemy of high BC hunting bullets are short actions and short magazines. The AR 15 platform is a very mediocre hunting platform if you want to use high BC lathe turned bullets. Bolt actions are much better. Remember, Stoner designed that platform as a high capacity light weight, rapid fire lead slinger for close in battle (300-400 yds or less). There is nothing wrong with trying to adapt that platform for hunting, as long as one is cognizant of the limitations and is willing to live with them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nralifer, post: 2686851, member: 94556"] From the measurements you provided, I don’t think we could offer a bullet that would be substantially higher in performance to justify the price of development and Swiss lathe manufacture. To make a high BC bullet from copper you need to satisfy 3 requirements. A longer ogive, a longer boat tail and minimize skin drag. In our case we also have a complex proprietary mathematical function describing the ogival shape which also adds to the BC. All these things add up to a longer bullet because copper is less dense than lead. In terms of sales, we don’t see a 90 or 100 gr 6.5 bullet for the Grendel AR platform selling very well or having a high BC because of the severe restraints on completed round OAL posed by the short magazine. In a bolt action, there is nothing one can do with a Grendel that you couldn’t do better with a 6.5x47 Lap or 6.5 Creed. Right now our competitors have their light weight 6.5 bullets priced at about $1.10/ bullet. That is not competitive with the 107gr Sierra which sells for less than half that amount (approximately $0.50/bullet). The #1 enemy of high BC hunting bullets are short actions and short magazines. The AR 15 platform is a very mediocre hunting platform if you want to use high BC lathe turned bullets. Bolt actions are much better. Remember, Stoner designed that platform as a high capacity light weight, rapid fire lead slinger for close in battle (300-400 yds or less). There is nothing wrong with trying to adapt that platform for hunting, as long as one is cognizant of the limitations and is willing to live with them. [/QUOTE]
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