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Bullet tips melt! Now what?
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<blockquote data-quote="Engineering101" data-source="post: 1166543" data-attributes="member: 63138"><p>bravo 4</p><p> </p><p>I appreciate your critical thinking in this instance but there are a couple of other factors I didn't mention which points to a guilty bullet.</p><p> </p><p>1) The percentage amount of degradation in BC indicated on my target with the 53 grain VMAX is suspiciously similar to what Hornady found in the Doppler radar testing. Kind of odd that you would get a flyer that just happens to match the Hornady data.</p><p> </p><p>2) I took that gun with the VMAXs after some prairie dogs last Spring and it was lights out until about 400 yards. Past that it got really inconsistent. This gun will put 10 into a 1 inch square at 200 yards so it was might suspicious that it would fall apart at 400+ ranges.</p><p> </p><p>My nephew was using the same bullet and he experienced the same thing. We were both scratching our heads and never did figure out what was going on. But this new info on melting tips is one possible explanation. I've since added a 22-250 fast twist running 80 grain Match Kings (all metal) which according to the theory should not have issues past 400 yards so we will see what happens this Spring.</p><p> </p><p>As to ES in velocity - common sense tells me that 19 fps (or twice or three time that) out of 3,000 fps is not going to make a significant difference in bullet tip heating so I don't look to ES as a factor.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Engineering101, post: 1166543, member: 63138"] bravo 4 I appreciate your critical thinking in this instance but there are a couple of other factors I didn't mention which points to a guilty bullet. 1) The percentage amount of degradation in BC indicated on my target with the 53 grain VMAX is suspiciously similar to what Hornady found in the Doppler radar testing. Kind of odd that you would get a flyer that just happens to match the Hornady data. 2) I took that gun with the VMAXs after some prairie dogs last Spring and it was lights out until about 400 yards. Past that it got really inconsistent. This gun will put 10 into a 1 inch square at 200 yards so it was might suspicious that it would fall apart at 400+ ranges. My nephew was using the same bullet and he experienced the same thing. We were both scratching our heads and never did figure out what was going on. But this new info on melting tips is one possible explanation. I've since added a 22-250 fast twist running 80 grain Match Kings (all metal) which according to the theory should not have issues past 400 yards so we will see what happens this Spring. As to ES in velocity - common sense tells me that 19 fps (or twice or three time that) out of 3,000 fps is not going to make a significant difference in bullet tip heating so I don't look to ES as a factor. [/QUOTE]
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