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<blockquote data-quote="Steve Shelp" data-source="post: 22388" data-attributes="member: 22"><p>WyoWhisper,</p><p> I know all the shooters that shot Randy's bullets at that match and there's more experiementing going on than meets the eye and can be said at this point also. What isn't shown and what I can say is that they are shooting them faster and through 13 and 14 twist barrels which helps makeup for the lack of BC as compared to a boattial bullet.</p><p> But the original theory that got this whole experiement started about a 1yr ago was in the manufacturing process of the bullet itself. Normally the boattail of the bullet is formed while the lead core is being seated causing bleeding of the lead core because of the extra pressure needed to form the boat tail down below. This caused concentricity issues. So a couple of guys worked with Randy Robinette to make a long ogive flat base bullet. The thinking was if you don't form the boat tail you eliminated the concentricty issues. So far it has worked. There were 2 HG targets that fired 99 scores with very good groups also and both were shot with this bullet. We're only looking for accuracy and not killing power.</p><p></p><p>But also don't underestimate the quality that Randy puts into these bullets either. All experiementing aside, if any other bullet was as consistantly top quality as Randy's bullets they would shoot a lot better also. The Clinch River bullets are also unique in the way they are made to get around the boat tail issue and they are very quickly being accepted in BR circles also. But they maintained a boattail that is much longer and formed in different steps to get around this issue. They are top quality bullets also.</p><p></p><p>Steve</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steve Shelp, post: 22388, member: 22"] WyoWhisper, I know all the shooters that shot Randy's bullets at that match and there's more experiementing going on than meets the eye and can be said at this point also. What isn't shown and what I can say is that they are shooting them faster and through 13 and 14 twist barrels which helps makeup for the lack of BC as compared to a boattial bullet. But the original theory that got this whole experiement started about a 1yr ago was in the manufacturing process of the bullet itself. Normally the boattail of the bullet is formed while the lead core is being seated causing bleeding of the lead core because of the extra pressure needed to form the boat tail down below. This caused concentricity issues. So a couple of guys worked with Randy Robinette to make a long ogive flat base bullet. The thinking was if you don't form the boat tail you eliminated the concentricty issues. So far it has worked. There were 2 HG targets that fired 99 scores with very good groups also and both were shot with this bullet. We're only looking for accuracy and not killing power. But also don't underestimate the quality that Randy puts into these bullets either. All experiementing aside, if any other bullet was as consistantly top quality as Randy's bullets they would shoot a lot better also. The Clinch River bullets are also unique in the way they are made to get around the boat tail issue and they are very quickly being accepted in BR circles also. But they maintained a boattail that is much longer and formed in different steps to get around this issue. They are top quality bullets also. Steve [/QUOTE]
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