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Terminal Ascent Bullets?
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<blockquote data-quote="DRock" data-source="post: 2628129" data-attributes="member: 109187"><p>Federal released the TLR bullet 4 or 5 years back and it was the same thing. Lot of hype, very few bullets hit the market, then they discontinued them. I was able to get quite a few TLRs and the 155 grain shot extremely well in my 280AI and led to the harvest of the buck in my Avatar. I was a huge fan. Then they were discontinued and Federal updated them with the Terminal Ascent bullet with the same marketing hype and minimal release to the reloader as the TLR. I was able to pick up a few boxes of Terminal Ascents but I did not try them as I had quite a few of the TLR's. I hear some guys knocking these bullets because the tolerances are not the same as match bullets. I am not sure there are any bonded bullets that have the tolerances that the match bullets have and dont think its fair to compare them. I was shooting steel to 800 yards and keeping a sub MOA group. My groups at 100 yards we 1/2MOA with Reloder 16 and a velocity of 3050. Plenty good for hunting. </p><p>I run a business and I am not sure how you can put the money into R and D and into the marketing of a new product and then not have anything to release to the public? How do you make a return on investment? I am seeing these bullets advertised in magazines as recently as this summer. Makes no sense to me to spend all that money on development and then not be prepared to have the inventory to supply those you are advertising to? I am in a similar boat with the new Ford Bronco-- I ordered one 26 months ago and now I am being told I wont get one until the 2023's are being made but they have been marketing the heck out of them for 3 years. </p><p>Fortunately there are lots of good bullet options out there but like one poster said previously- you kind of lose interest when things are handled this way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DRock, post: 2628129, member: 109187"] Federal released the TLR bullet 4 or 5 years back and it was the same thing. Lot of hype, very few bullets hit the market, then they discontinued them. I was able to get quite a few TLRs and the 155 grain shot extremely well in my 280AI and led to the harvest of the buck in my Avatar. I was a huge fan. Then they were discontinued and Federal updated them with the Terminal Ascent bullet with the same marketing hype and minimal release to the reloader as the TLR. I was able to pick up a few boxes of Terminal Ascents but I did not try them as I had quite a few of the TLR's. I hear some guys knocking these bullets because the tolerances are not the same as match bullets. I am not sure there are any bonded bullets that have the tolerances that the match bullets have and dont think its fair to compare them. I was shooting steel to 800 yards and keeping a sub MOA group. My groups at 100 yards we 1/2MOA with Reloder 16 and a velocity of 3050. Plenty good for hunting. I run a business and I am not sure how you can put the money into R and D and into the marketing of a new product and then not have anything to release to the public? How do you make a return on investment? I am seeing these bullets advertised in magazines as recently as this summer. Makes no sense to me to spend all that money on development and then not be prepared to have the inventory to supply those you are advertising to? I am in a similar boat with the new Ford Bronco-- I ordered one 26 months ago and now I am being told I wont get one until the 2023's are being made but they have been marketing the heck out of them for 3 years. Fortunately there are lots of good bullet options out there but like one poster said previously- you kind of lose interest when things are handled this way. [/QUOTE]
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