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I Hate Hammer Bullets!
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<blockquote data-quote="RockyMtnMT" data-source="post: 2407755" data-attributes="member: 7999"><p>At higher velocities we have no trouble getting consistent expansion. Getting below 2000 fps is where issues show up.</p><p></p><p>Kind of like when we first made bullets and assumed that the nice pure copper that we got would work perfectly because it was so pure. We shot a ton of animals that year with perfect performance. Shot a cow elk at roughly 650y too. Had sent some bullets to a guy to test and found out they didn't work for him. Come to find out none of the animals that we had shot were impacted below 2500 fps. We duplicated his test at 2500 fps and he was correct. They didn't work. So fortunate we didn't launch the website then. Had it loaded ready to go and had to start over with new copper and new design. Bc was great on those first ones though.</p><p></p><p>You could be correct on hole size to tip size ratio and we just have not found the sweat spot. I don't know though. I am skeptical and unwilling to market a bullet that is less effective to gain a few inches of wind drift. We are not done trying. I want it to work too. The last tip testing session of several diff configurations was disappointing to say the least.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RockyMtnMT, post: 2407755, member: 7999"] At higher velocities we have no trouble getting consistent expansion. Getting below 2000 fps is where issues show up. Kind of like when we first made bullets and assumed that the nice pure copper that we got would work perfectly because it was so pure. We shot a ton of animals that year with perfect performance. Shot a cow elk at roughly 650y too. Had sent some bullets to a guy to test and found out they didn't work for him. Come to find out none of the animals that we had shot were impacted below 2500 fps. We duplicated his test at 2500 fps and he was correct. They didn't work. So fortunate we didn't launch the website then. Had it loaded ready to go and had to start over with new copper and new design. Bc was great on those first ones though. You could be correct on hole size to tip size ratio and we just have not found the sweat spot. I don't know though. I am skeptical and unwilling to market a bullet that is less effective to gain a few inches of wind drift. We are not done trying. I want it to work too. The last tip testing session of several diff configurations was disappointing to say the least. [/QUOTE]
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