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Hammer hunter vs HHT
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<blockquote data-quote="RockyMtnMT" data-source="post: 3085154" data-attributes="member: 7999"><p>I will chime in here and expect [USER=120504]@fordy[/USER] To give his two cents.</p><p></p><p> I'm the guy that said Hammers would never have a tip. We tried several times before and failed to get a tip to work as well as our open hollow point bullets. Tips are a plug in the hole that must be evacuated in order to allow fluid to enter the hollow point in order to get the bullet to expand from the inside out. Tipped bullets have two inherent problems. Random failure to expand due to the tip plugging the hole. The lower the impact velocity the more prevalent this problem becomes. And bullet deflection on angled bone impacts due to the tip breaking out one side of the bullet and causing imbalance and a deflection. I did not think it was possible to have a bullet work as well as our Hammer Hunters or the other Hammer lines. We set the bar for terminal performance with these lines. When we designed the current Hammer HHT line of bullets we were able to surpass the terminal performance of our previous bullets and eliminate the normal inferiority problems associated with tipped bullets. Fordy can expand on this. After our initial testing and hunting in Africa I asked him to make them fail. "No worries mate, I can fail any bullet." He was unable to fail the HHT and he is still angry about it. We did try some different tip material that did fail in the traditional tip bullet ways. </p><p></p><p>For your applications my personal choice would be...</p><p></p><p>6.5 creed the 112gr HHT's </p><p>I would move the 6mm to the 75gr HHT </p><p>I would stick with the 95gr HHT's in the 257</p><p>In the 7 mag I would run the 145gr HHT.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RockyMtnMT, post: 3085154, member: 7999"] I will chime in here and expect [USER=120504]@fordy[/USER] To give his two cents. I'm the guy that said Hammers would never have a tip. We tried several times before and failed to get a tip to work as well as our open hollow point bullets. Tips are a plug in the hole that must be evacuated in order to allow fluid to enter the hollow point in order to get the bullet to expand from the inside out. Tipped bullets have two inherent problems. Random failure to expand due to the tip plugging the hole. The lower the impact velocity the more prevalent this problem becomes. And bullet deflection on angled bone impacts due to the tip breaking out one side of the bullet and causing imbalance and a deflection. I did not think it was possible to have a bullet work as well as our Hammer Hunters or the other Hammer lines. We set the bar for terminal performance with these lines. When we designed the current Hammer HHT line of bullets we were able to surpass the terminal performance of our previous bullets and eliminate the normal inferiority problems associated with tipped bullets. Fordy can expand on this. After our initial testing and hunting in Africa I asked him to make them fail. "No worries mate, I can fail any bullet." He was unable to fail the HHT and he is still angry about it. We did try some different tip material that did fail in the traditional tip bullet ways. For your applications my personal choice would be... 6.5 creed the 112gr HHT's I would move the 6mm to the 75gr HHT I would stick with the 95gr HHT's in the 257 In the 7 mag I would run the 145gr HHT. [/QUOTE]
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