Discussion about bullets, tumbling and expanding

[Calvin45]

You may very well be right! Kind of a boring option

Good grief!

Never thought I'd see core bonded boat tail polymer tipped bullets described as a boring option!

Now I gotta break the news to my 270 win swift scirocco reloads that they're old news, boring, basic!!!

 

[Calvin45]

Good grief!

Never thought I'd see core bonded boat tail polymer tipped bullets described as a boring option!

Now I gotta break the news to my 270 win swift scirocco reloads that they're old news, boring, basic!!!

What about low bc bonded cores? Can swift a frames and woodleigh weldcores even kill anything anymore?

 

[Phil Rizzo]

I doubt it, bad out of style.
Too old to be "good"
BC probably too low.?

 

[shaughn]

Poor BC no problem...F4 phantom 2...proof of thrust over aerodynamics...


More powder..more velocity..a Mach 2 brick...doesn't care....


I know ....I know....my tongue is firmly planted in cheek...

 

[Turpentine21]

Good grief!

Never thought I'd see core bonded boat tail polymer tipped bullets described as a boring option!

Now I gotta break the news to my 270 win swift scirocco reloads that they're old news, boring, basic!!!

Wait a minute. Let's add the Super Doppler verified heat shield tip. Then it becomes interesting again. Or we could personalize the boat tail portion with our initials.
I'm pretty old school. I really liked Corelokts. Still do within reasonable distances. It probably says it best when I say my favorite broadhead is still a 4 blade Zwickey Eskimo on a Burch shaft with real Turkey feathers I ground myself launched by my 57 pound zebrawood over bamboo homemade longbow with a purple heart riser. I call her Ernestine. She wasn't purty but she sure was strong. We were quite tough together on hogs. We got exits too! If only I could still draw a bow.

 

[shaughn]

I do sometimes put away away the "easy mode" rifles and will drag out a classic rifle, or even to some a relic and dust off old skills and get into the weeds with whatever I want to hunt.

The old bullets the Norma Alaskan, Remington Bronze Points, Herters Bullets, Brennekes various bullets, Lapua, Kynoch and others I can't remember off the top of my head even some small custom makers who have come and gone.

I wish I had stocked up on more than a few of them.

 

[Turpentine21]

I do sometimes put away away the "easy mode" rifles and will drag out a classic rifle, or even to some a relic and dust off old skills and get into the weeds with whatever I want to hunt.

The old bullets the Norma Alaskan, Remington Bronze Points, Herters Bullets, Brennekes various bullets, Lapua, Kynoch and others I can't remember off the top of my head even some small custom makers who have come and gone.

I wish I had stocked up on more than a few of them.

I actually liked the bronze points. Killed one of the biggest whitetails I've ever killed with them. I had a lot of older stuff, Herters, Alcan, Eley, Pacific, Peters, Hercules, Winchester Ranger, Xpert, and Mark 5. I lost a lot of it in a 1000 year level flood that flooded the first and second story of my house. The water came up so fast I simply couldn't get it all. I still use a lot of LC Match brass from the 60s, 70s, and 80s in 7.62 x 51. I still have some of the original Ballistic Tips in 270. The first box of them I ever saw in a store. The ones that were very explosive. I use them now in downloaded loads at around 2750fps. They do a great job at that muzzle velocity. At 3000 plus they made a huge mess.

 

[Phil Rizzo]

The new ones are certainly different.
shot a doe with a 160gr .284 today around 2850fps impact velocity.
Great penetration and controlled expansion, pass through the ribs.
Lungs turned to liquid.

 

[bultinkle]

Seeing another bullet construction thread on the horizon

 

[Turpentine21]

The new ones are certainly different.
shot a doe with a 160gr .284 today around 2850fps impact velocity.
Great penetration and controlled expansion, pass through the ribs.
Lungs turned to liquid.

These were some of the first batch of Balistic Tips Nosler ever released. Shortly thereafter word got around that they were a bit to fragile and I think Nosler very quickly toughened them up. Mine are mid 80s production I think. They were violent. Definitely not the same construction as the more current version.

 

[Phil Rizzo]

You got that right. I used them in .224,.257,.277,.284 back then.
Wild pigs taught me the limits of them!
But they were so cool compared to the lead tipped "Solid Base"

 

[Turpentine21]

They certainly were cool. But here I was shooting only a 270 and yellow is one of my least favorite colors.
However, I do wish every company would use a different color tip for different calibers. Especially with me using a 6.5-06 in 270 and 30-06 brass.