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Bullet tips melt! Now what?
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<blockquote data-quote="Engineering101" data-source="post: 1166575" data-attributes="member: 63138"><p>bravo4</p><p> </p><p>All your points are valid. If you had been the one that made my post, I could have been the one that made your post so I get what you are saying.</p><p> </p><p>To put this in perspective, no the sky is not falling. You are right that these Delrin tipped bullets work at long range. The problem is that the tips will melt and the BC will degrade somewhere past 400 yards but you won't know where. If you are at high altitude on a cold day, the range where this happens will be further. There is some range at which the tips will always be melted no matter the altitude or temperature. Past that range you will get consistently degraded BCs. So for true long range shots these bullets should be consistent. It is that in between area which seems to be 400 to 600 yards where they won't behave consistently. And when shooting at a prairie dog on all fours at 500 yards you don't have 4 inches to play with so while this is not a catastrophe it is an issue if you want all the accuracy you can get which I do. By the way, I have some bullets for sale. Interested?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Engineering101, post: 1166575, member: 63138"] bravo4 All your points are valid. If you had been the one that made my post, I could have been the one that made your post so I get what you are saying. To put this in perspective, no the sky is not falling. You are right that these Delrin tipped bullets work at long range. The problem is that the tips will melt and the BC will degrade somewhere past 400 yards but you won't know where. If you are at high altitude on a cold day, the range where this happens will be further. There is some range at which the tips will always be melted no matter the altitude or temperature. Past that range you will get consistently degraded BCs. So for true long range shots these bullets should be consistent. It is that in between area which seems to be 400 to 600 yards where they won't behave consistently. And when shooting at a prairie dog on all fours at 500 yards you don't have 4 inches to play with so while this is not a catastrophe it is an issue if you want all the accuracy you can get which I do. By the way, I have some bullets for sale. Interested? [/QUOTE]
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