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Ike666

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I have been reading with great interest the developments at Hornady with their new Extreme Low Drag bullets. I have long been a fan of the A-MAX bullet and have used them to create some very accurate ammunition.

I noted that the effectiveness of the new tipped bullets is generally only realized beyond 300 yards. This is the approximate range at which the stagnation heating begins to deform the Delrin tips. I had never given much thought to how the tip itself could affect the ballistics of the round in flight.

This brings me to my question. I'm using a Redding Benchrest bullet seatnig die and I noticed the other night that it was slightly compressing the Delrin tips on the A-MAX bullets. I'm using 178 grain A-MAX loading for .308. I generally am shooting between 300 and 500 yards. How much is this slight flattening likely to affect performance at these ranges?
 
Take 7 rounds with the deformed tips and take 7 without the deformed tips and shoot them. You will have your answer.
 
How much deformation? I would venture a guess that it wouldn't put you out of (your normally expected) MOA at those ranges, given the conditions allow.
 
I have have no clue, I do have the green RCBS organizer sorter cabinets, one is used for seater plugs, then there are the old seaters before progressive presses, I have no problem getting below the tips when seating.

Then there is Hornady and thinking of everything, then there was the drama. Seems they would have thought about upsetting the tip when seating, or it seems someone having trouble with the tips would call Hornady first. that is what I would do.

F. Guffey
 
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If you will contact Redding they will either have a seating plug that already has enough relief or will make you one for about $15 delivered if I remember right.

I had to get one made for some custom VLD bullets once. I sent them a couple of bullets and about a week and a half later it showed up in the mail.
 
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