stagpanther
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Pretty interesting--anyone had a chance to try these yet? Makes me wonder about all the other tipped bullets manufactured.
Hornady's new ELD-X
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brasscollector
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It does make you wonder if the other manufacturers have similar issues.
The 178gr 308s have piqued my interest..
The 178gr 308s have piqued my interest..
There was some previous discussion of this in another thread. Hornady's video's claim that changing a bullet tip keeps the G1 BC constant for a bullet not shaped like the Type 1 test projectile defies the laws of physics, so something is wrong there. Only a bullet shaped like the one used to establish the G1 drag coefficient will track the G1 drag coefficient curve exactly. Sierra says they've found no issues with plastic tips to parallel Hornady's.
So, I would just buy some of the new Hornady's and see how their accuracy and long range wind drift perform for you. If you like the bullets, go with them. But my guess is, in the general scheme of things and like everything else involving shooting components, you'll find that some guns and loads like these bullets best and some don't.
So, I would just buy some of the new Hornady's and see how their accuracy and long range wind drift perform for you. If you like the bullets, go with them. But my guess is, in the general scheme of things and like everything else involving shooting components, you'll find that some guns and loads like these bullets best and some don't.
stagpanther
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My understanding from their promo video is that it's not the profile that's at issue--it's the deformation of the plastic tip in high-velocity flight that degrades the BC of the projectile in flight. My impression is that the implied message is that all "softer tipped" (basically all the other plastic-tipped bullets) might be vulnerable to the same in-flight degradation. But then how many people have their own Doppler radars?
That's their mechanism, but they had a high G1 BC plot happening along a line that looked flat in the video toward the end.
Here's the other thread. You see others point out they've recovered bullets with plastic tips unmelted, but I don't know under what circumstances. Even Hornady talks about the difference only being significant for very high BC's. So I don't know. Buy and try is the only approach I know take.
Here's the other thread. You see others point out they've recovered bullets with plastic tips unmelted, but I don't know under what circumstances. Even Hornady talks about the difference only being significant for very high BC's. So I don't know. Buy and try is the only approach I know take.