Announcing the New Hammer HHT

[jessej]

@ButterBean, @Muddyboots, @Gingerman, my fellow velocity freaks…

Hey now! Don't forget about me! I was pushin 150 grn balistic tips 3850 fps over 20 years ago!

 

[Calvin45]

Hey now! Don't forget about me! I was pushin 150 grn balistic tips 3850 fps over 20 years ago!

I'm not even remotely old but it still takes me a second to process that 20 years ago = 2003.

 

[Gregg C]

Yes it's Kirby's and I don't have one, just a guesstimate. I don't blame you on the bolt face.
I'm hoping they tip the 90gr Absolute Hammer. I may have to try some 6mm HHT's, plus I want one of those copper blocks.

Yup... I had to have one!

 

[RockyMtnMT]

Are you planning to adding tips to all you bullets?

We plan to continue to add to the line of Hammer HHT's. The initial launch of bullets was designed around factory rifles for twist and magazine capacity. We will also move toward the more aggressive higher bc designs that don't fit in everything and could be more finicky to load. However, when we have tried aggressive designs in the past they have still been easy to load. We have not decided if these will get a diff name or stay with the HHT designation. We expect that we will have a full line of HHT's comparable to the line of Hammer Hunters. We will not get rid of any of the older designs but I do expect the HHT to become the dominant line as time goes on.

 

[RockyMtnMT]

That make sense. Copper bullets are a different ball game than lead as there have been numerous metallic tipped lead core bullets that don't seem to have an issue - much softer inside so that must help - oldest one that comes to mind is the Remington bronze point of days gone by.

I must say at first I was underwhelmed by the hht numbers regarding ballistic coefficient, didn't seem like that much improvement over the older design. But ive come to appreciate once again that for you guys terminal performance is the number one consideration and it makes a lot of sense that these bullets might actually open up more emphatically at lower impact velocity than the hammer hunter. So rather than thinking of it as a tipped hammer hunter (which is what it's labeled as i do realize) and then comparing it with the untipped hammer hunter and finding it lacklustre, I think of it more as a tipped "shock hammer" - will have a waaaaay higher bc than the original shock hammer and still retain that ultra violent low velocity performance that comes from having a more massive cavity in the nose.

I've had a few set backs recently that dictate I'm done buying gun stuff for a long time now BUT somewhere down the road I still plan to try one of the shock hammers in my .358 Norma, either the 223 or 245 grain. I think that would be one heck of a DRT combo

I hope things are ok for you. I am sure you will come back stronger than ever.

 

[RockyMtnMT]

May have to give these a try. So far, accuracy hasn't been great with the ones I've tried. I like the fact they have a sample size order so you can test them in your application.

Push them. They will settle down.

 

[ButterBean]

Push them. They will settle down.

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[RockyMtnMT]

I dont care if my 10 year old can do it .. If its so easy then hammer should be putting them in.. making them absolutely perfect, keep the rejects down and makes consumers happy when they open a box up and know they are right and not damaged! Which in turn takes less time for me (which, personally I dont want to waste any of it on adding a tip that should already be there ) to load up and go to the range, which means ill shoot more and spend more money on them.

cutting edge
hornady
noslds
apex


all great bullets and the tips come installed ..

Absolutely love hammers just wish it was a one stop shop,, big turn off for me

Dang. That was rough. You can use the bullets that don't have a tip. You can wait till next year when the tipping machines is here. We did not want to wait another year to launch the line. The top of your list did exactly the same thing. Some others see more importance in the tip than function. I'm ok with that.

 

[RockyMtnMT]

Sorta thinking, Hammer Bullets could pay somebody there, to put these tips in but, that would make for, an X percentage of rejects, out of every 100. If a guy does em at home, those rejects just become ur practice rounds. Like the DIY rounds if, they'd add Titanium tips option.

No such thing as a guy that will put in tips all day. McDonalds starts at $20 an hr here.

 

[Calvin45]

I hope things are ok for you. I am sure you will come back stronger than ever.

Oh things are just fine but just one of those seasons of life where it's one blasted thing after another. Y'all know how that is. When it rains….

Damage from a big storm dropping a tree on our van, some jackass breaking into on our van at 3 am and stealing stuff, a break down of our van , a kid with a massive concussion incurring an unholy ambulance bill, a plumbing emergency, a kid with a dental emergency (cracked his tooth clean in half, can't have felt good but he was pretty tough about it)

But it's just unexpected expenses piling up, nobody's dying or particularly unwell here, no real disasters or devastating news, nothing like that. God is good and we're fine, just gotta play catch up for a while haha.

NOTE: the common denominators are "the kids" and "the van" being the reason I have no money for guns . Anyone here feel déjà vu now?

 

[DoneNOut]

I dont care if my 10 year old can do it .. If its so easy then hammer should be putting them in.. making them absolutely perfect, keep the rejects down and makes consumers happy when they open a box up and know they are right and not damaged! Which in turn takes less time for me (which, personally I dont want to waste any of it on adding a tip that should already be there ) to load up and go to the range, which means ill shoot more and spend more money on them.

cutting edge
hornady
nosler
sierra
badlands
apex


all great bullets and the tips come installed ..

Absolutely love hammers just wish it was a one stop shop,, big turn off for me

Serious first world problems…

 

[In_Him]

No such thing as a guy that will put in tips all day. McDonalds starts at $20 an hr here.

I think I remembered offering my services, LOL.

 

[Gregg C]

I gotta weigh in here. Not WADE in....
Anyway, I am having a hard time believing that the minor imperfections on some of these tips, "deformations", if you wish, can't possibly amount to squat. To close to center, not enough moment of inertia. I'm not an engineer...far from it. It just seems to me that, A-Hammer Bullets would NOT have released to the public a second rate product, given their track record. B-The weight is most likely there, it's the surface (in the dent) ..... that is behind the bow wave, giving some folks concern. In actuality, I feel certain we average shooter's will never see it on target. Now, you folks that shoot in the ones(all day long), you might. But then, this would not be your projectile of choice, either.
Haven't shot mine yet. When I get the rifle broke in and figured out, I won't hesitate to let it be known if I'm wrong.
Or right.

 

[ButterBean]

I gotta weigh in here. Not WADE in....
Anyway, I am having a hard time believing that the minor imperfections on some of these tips, "deformations", if you wish, can't possibly amount to squat. To close to center, not enough moment of inertia. I'm not an engineer...far from it. It just seems to me that, A-Hammer Bullets would NOT have released to the public a second rate product, given their track record. B-The weight is most likely there, it's the surface (in the dent) ..... that is behind the bow wave, giving some folks concern. In actuality, I feel certain we average shooter's will never see it on target. Now, you folks that shoot in the ones(all day long), you might. But then, this would not be your projectile of choice, either.
Haven't shot mine yet. When I get the rifle broke in and figured out, I won't hesitate to let it be known if I'm wrong.
Or right.

You are correct, it won't hurt anything, now if they had a scratch in them it would be a different story