Arnistador:
With all due respect to one's personal preferences, the issue of the direction the petals overlap is utterly, completely MOOT. Consider the rate of twist used to stabilize the short .451 230g bullet. It's what? 1 in 18"? 1 in 20"? I don't remember what's standard, but it's slowwwwww. With respect to the target that it hits, it barely turns at all. Remember that the DOJ recommends penetration of 12" to 16" inches. I.E., the bullet will likely not even travel the distance into the target that it takes to complete one
full revolution!! The expansion of the projectile is NOT dependent upon the spin of the projectile, except with regard to the stability that the spin imparts. If it could remain oriented in the same direction, I daresay the bullet would expand just as well when fired from a smoothbore. (Probably, though, the bullet would tumble without a spin about its longtitudinal axis.)
Now, does the Golden Sabre work well? Dunno. I, too have heard talk of jacket separation. I need more data. If you get jacket separation but get 16" of penetration every time, what do you care?
One more projectile to do your work, maybe!
Anyway, if we're getting jacket separations from G.S. bullets, that actually argues that there's
too much expansion going on, rather than that the jacket will not deploy because of wrongly-turned twist.
Frankly, I'm with Rocky Road; I'd like to see a hollowpoint with a tip that WOULD NOT expand beyond .45 cal. Maybe a FMJHP, which would assume the shape of a soup can upon impact! That'd be sumpin'!
Regards,
L.P.
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