I haven't shot the hornady 6.5 A-tips yet but I have run the 6mm110 grain a-tips in my 6 creed. The 110 grain A-tips came in box's of 100- I ordered 500- and each box had an internal clear plastic egg carton type of holder where each bullet is held vertically in place, not touching any other bullet keeping it from being knocked around or dented during shipping. They were all extremely uniform in length and weight,but packaging alone would make cost go up. And they are high priced compared with other hornady bullets, but I gotta say they do look pretty cool with the aluminum tips. But without taking measurements the general shape of the 6mm 110's looks extremely similar to the hornady eld-m 108's just a hair longer. So they're definitely not a newer design or a vld type shape, I can't speak for the other a-tips for different calibers ,but they appear to be very similar to the eld-m's but with the aluminum tips being the only significant new feature as well as having heavier grain bullets in all the caliber offerings. I shoot the 115 d-tacs and really like them, go through 5000 or so a year,and I've also shot a lot of hornady's eld-m 108's and for the price are also a decent bullet. I've run the smk 110's,several thousand of them,and they're good bullets, a little bit more difficult to get tuned than the hybrid type ojive bullets. The new 110 grain. a-tips look like they'd be easy to get tuned in but I've had zero luck getting them to shoot the 1/4 moa 100yrd groups that I know my gun can shoot and does shoot with 115 d-tacs. I started off with them lightly jammed and made up 3 round tester groups backing off .4 (BTO measurement) from the previous group,shooting 10 separate 3 round tester groups,never achieving anything better than just under 1moa @ 100yrds my first trip to the range. Being a little disappointed and knowing I have 500 rounds of these new bullets I made another 10 groups of the 3 round tester groups but this time I only lowered the BTO measurements by .2 per each of the 3 round tester groups. Again no luck finding a sweet spot. I'm not sure how all the other calibers and weights are going to be working out for everyone but I'm gonna wait a while and listen to other people's results before I invest any more cash into this new line of a-tips. The 30 cal 250 grain a-tips look good as well as the heavy 6.5.... but only time will tell.
