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Possible New Bullet Venture
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<blockquote data-quote="MontanaRifleman" data-source="post: 836406" data-attributes="member: 11717"><p>My suggestion is not to bond the nose core to the jacket for a couple of reasons. First, others have had less than stellear accuracy at long ranges with bonded bullets. Next, IMO, the nose should expand and completely depart from the back end leaving a cylinder shaped projectile with a blunt flat surface. This will produce more permanent wound channel and cavitation than a round mushroomed frontal. Shrapnel from the nose can cause collateral wound damage. If you want a mushrooming front end you would be better off with a homogenous core. With dis-similar metals, essentially a 2 part core, in order to get a mushroomed shaped bullet you would need a partition type construction. </p><p></p><p>As I already mentioned, I'm not in favor of tips. They are basically a crutch. You don't see tipped bullets in competitions. They add variance to the bullets. There are a number of HP bullets that readily and reliably expand and they produce the best BC's and accuracies. It would be nice to see them expand down to 1600 fps or less, especially the heavier ones. Like everything, there will always be two crowds on this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MontanaRifleman, post: 836406, member: 11717"] My suggestion is not to bond the nose core to the jacket for a couple of reasons. First, others have had less than stellear accuracy at long ranges with bonded bullets. Next, IMO, the nose should expand and completely depart from the back end leaving a cylinder shaped projectile with a blunt flat surface. This will produce more permanent wound channel and cavitation than a round mushroomed frontal. Shrapnel from the nose can cause collateral wound damage. If you want a mushrooming front end you would be better off with a homogenous core. With dis-similar metals, essentially a 2 part core, in order to get a mushroomed shaped bullet you would need a partition type construction. As I already mentioned, I'm not in favor of tips. They are basically a crutch. You don't see tipped bullets in competitions. They add variance to the bullets. There are a number of HP bullets that readily and reliably expand and they produce the best BC's and accuracies. It would be nice to see them expand down to 1600 fps or less, especially the heavier ones. Like everything, there will always be two crowds on this. [/QUOTE]
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