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I Hate Hammer Bullets!
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<blockquote data-quote="Pdvdh" data-source="post: 2406935" data-attributes="member: 4191"><p>I'd like a tipped Hammer bullet, no matter your previous explained experiences of poor expansion at lower velocity. Tipped bullets can provide reliable expansion. Perhaps the tipped versions you've experimented with didn't have the Midas touch. A larger tip diameter at the base of the tip will help, by creating greater force against the leading edge of the copper bullet. A deeper or larger diameter hole in the copper bullet, which accepts the tip, will also help initiate copper bullet expansion by reducing the force required to initiate copper nose flare out / expansion.</p><p></p><p>I've been shooting tipped copper monolithic bullets for at least 4 seasons now. Proving deadly on game, with very minimal meat destruction. No failures to expand so far... But I must add, <em>I've not yet shot an animal past 625yds</em> thus far.</p><p></p><p>Tipped bullets have been in use forever in lead jacketed bullets. An optimized combo of tip design will overcome your experiences of expansion failures at lower velocities, in my opinion. There's nothing that hydraulic fluid acting on the hollowed tips of your bullet is accomplishing, that a solid tip inserted into a hollow cavity, can't also accomplish. </p><p></p><p>As you know, my opinion can be lacking humility.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pdvdh, post: 2406935, member: 4191"] I'd like a tipped Hammer bullet, no matter your previous explained experiences of poor expansion at lower velocity. Tipped bullets can provide reliable expansion. Perhaps the tipped versions you've experimented with didn't have the Midas touch. A larger tip diameter at the base of the tip will help, by creating greater force against the leading edge of the copper bullet. A deeper or larger diameter hole in the copper bullet, which accepts the tip, will also help initiate copper bullet expansion by reducing the force required to initiate copper nose flare out / expansion. I've been shooting tipped copper monolithic bullets for at least 4 seasons now. Proving deadly on game, with very minimal meat destruction. No failures to expand so far... But I must add, [I]I've not yet shot an animal past 625yds[/I] thus far. Tipped bullets have been in use forever in lead jacketed bullets. An optimized combo of tip design will overcome your experiences of expansion failures at lower velocities, in my opinion. There's nothing that hydraulic fluid acting on the hollowed tips of your bullet is accomplishing, that a solid tip inserted into a hollow cavity, can't also accomplish. As you know, my opinion can be lacking humility. [/QUOTE]
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