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The Most DISSAPOINTING Bullet there ever was...
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<blockquote data-quote="jake545" data-source="post: 2748318" data-attributes="member: 125700"><p>I think every specific bullet weight and caliber for a particular design can vary. Many have said in other threads that the 30cal Nosler BT sucked unless it was the 180gr. I have had mixed reviews on SST, but honestly most of that has been with the 6.8spc shooting 120gr. They all killed well but sometimes they fragment, others they expand rapidly and all you find is a jacket under the hid offside and others you have a beautiful mushroom. I think a lot of the performance depends on what you hit and the angle you hit it at. I had a buddy who was fuming mad about a 9mm hp not expanding after being shot thru a car door. One look at it, showed it closed the tip the an angled shot and in no way could it have expanded after that. The design was good it just didn't work well in that situation, however it did penetrate and track true enough, so it did the rest of its job. When it comes to rifle bullets, some varieties are designed for certain rounds (velocity windows) and don't work great when shot by other rounds such as a 300WM vs a 308. One can see where a 308 designed bullet shot in a 300WM might blow up at close range but work wonderfully at longer ranges. If you flip that the 300WM bullet might work ok up close in 308 but at longer distance it doesn't expand as well. That's not a bullet design issue, that's just using it outside of its best velocity window. Packaging often doesn't tell us these velocity windows for a particular bullet so it takes digging or testing to find out what they perform like. Sadly a lot of that testing happens on game, and we see a certain combo didn't work well, and then we right off the entire bullet family as not worth having. Hence why you have seen just about every bullet made mentioned here. Every design can fail, which is why it is up to us to learn what shots to take with certain bullets.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jake545, post: 2748318, member: 125700"] I think every specific bullet weight and caliber for a particular design can vary. Many have said in other threads that the 30cal Nosler BT sucked unless it was the 180gr. I have had mixed reviews on SST, but honestly most of that has been with the 6.8spc shooting 120gr. They all killed well but sometimes they fragment, others they expand rapidly and all you find is a jacket under the hid offside and others you have a beautiful mushroom. I think a lot of the performance depends on what you hit and the angle you hit it at. I had a buddy who was fuming mad about a 9mm hp not expanding after being shot thru a car door. One look at it, showed it closed the tip the an angled shot and in no way could it have expanded after that. The design was good it just didn't work well in that situation, however it did penetrate and track true enough, so it did the rest of its job. When it comes to rifle bullets, some varieties are designed for certain rounds (velocity windows) and don't work great when shot by other rounds such as a 300WM vs a 308. One can see where a 308 designed bullet shot in a 300WM might blow up at close range but work wonderfully at longer ranges. If you flip that the 300WM bullet might work ok up close in 308 but at longer distance it doesn't expand as well. That's not a bullet design issue, that's just using it outside of its best velocity window. Packaging often doesn't tell us these velocity windows for a particular bullet so it takes digging or testing to find out what they perform like. Sadly a lot of that testing happens on game, and we see a certain combo didn't work well, and then we right off the entire bullet family as not worth having. Hence why you have seen just about every bullet made mentioned here. Every design can fail, which is why it is up to us to learn what shots to take with certain bullets. [/QUOTE]
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