Recent content by Lou270

Hornady marketing has figured out if they put the highest BC number on the box a good portion if not majority of folks are enthralled with that and rationalize or dont care about everything else. Pretty smart if ask me For a long time people were enthralled with muzzle velocity or muzzle...

Good luck!

There is nothing to disagree with. It is what it is. The min velocity is simply when a bullet starts expanding and there is no secret why it is similar across different cartridges. It is because they are using similar materials which require similar dynamic pressures to deform. Once a...

This is because bullet deformation in a liquid like media depends on dynamic pressure so the animal is “hard enough” to expand the bullet. Basically, at a certain impact velocity, the “deer” is harder than the bullet as the material can’t get our of the way fast enough and the bullet deforms...

Rules of thumb and min requirement game laws are mostly there to keep people from doing something dumb. By default they tend to be at least a little conservative to weed out most of the stunt shooters and ignorant/inexperienced. The ultimate goal is to not just kill an animal but do so as...

People keep saying 270 wsm did not do well but that is not true at all. Hornady, Barnes, Nosler, fed on top of Win still load for it. Hornady included in newest lines like precison hunter and outfitter wirh cx bullet and federal has in their premium lines as well as fusion. ADG and Peterson...

I vote 6.8W but I have always liked 27cal. While the 7prc may be more popular I don’t think it is going anywhere. The 6.8W has a bit less recoil for a bit less performance though still very impressive ballistics. Personally, I do not think either cartridge will be “supreme” long term as...

Super cartridge. You will enjoy it! There are a few facebook groups that get a lot of activity and have lots of information. Recommend checking those out. Brass is only availble from Winchester currently and drops infrequently. Not just 6.8W but any Win brass is infrequent They keep...

Fordy And therein lies the quandry. Nobody publishes this information for their actions and the small / custom shops probably do not have resources to test this even if they wanted to. I can give anecdotal I have seen but that is not accurate either. As BB likes to say livin on the edge...

I think my last post answer your question?

Ok - since folks want a metaphor, I will give a similar, but better metaphor. A circuit breaker is designed to trip at a certain amperage. Sometimes a weak breaker when you are getting close to this limit it will buzz before popping (or not pop, but i cant think of a better analogy). Let us...

As an Electrical Engineer I say it is not;). In any case when you spec your fuses or breakers or whatever you use do you spec it to protect your equipment and the people using it or some arbitrarily higher limit because you don’t believe the specifications of the equipment you are trying to...

Brass is not like a shear pin either. Shear pins and fuses are designed to let go at specific limits to protect equipment, rifle brass is not. You don’t buy a higher amp fuse so you can run more current through a circuit as that defeats the purpose of a fuse. What is getting proposed (at...

You can easily get an idea of engraving pressure by loading each bullet with same powder charge and shooting over chronograph. The one with the lower engraving pressure will give you a lower velocity/pressure Lou