RockyMtnMT
Official LRH Sponsor
You are correct. You have a pretty good idea, but most do not, of how consumed we are with trying to make sure that we have this right. We have a few thousand pounds of copper on hand that we will not use for our bullets due to terminal performance. In the quest for better, when we found it, we could not in good conscience continue making bullets with the old copper knowing that we came up with a better alloy. The old stuff works, just not as well.Barnes tests bumpkis IMO, they load some rounds at different velocity and shoot it into a large water tank then drop the bullets out the bottom and acting like that is relevant to hunting, it makes pretty bullet pictures but shooting into a water tank inches away from our muzzle has nothing to do with hunting. They are not correct on their twist rates, they do it just like many other manufactures. The two best bullet companies about twist rates are Hammer bullets and Berger, the guys at Hammer live in reality and shoot their own bullet and send bullets out and get results from real shooting and they know their twist rates not only from modeling but from shooting and paying attention to wound channels and bullet tracking in game.
Anyone need a few thousand pounds of copper rod? Will sell at current market rate.
Steve