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Cold temp affecting terminal performance of plastic tipped bullets
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<blockquote data-quote="WildRose" data-source="post: 1364502" data-attributes="member: 30902"><p>I'll refer you back to this. In addition to the heat from the chamber and friction while riding down the barrel the tip of the bullet is heating to 600-800F in flight. </p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.longrangehunting.com/threads/cold-temp-affecting-terminal-performance-of-plastic-tipped-bullets.194366/#post-1364011" target="_blank">https://www.longrangehunting.com/threads/cold-temp-affecting-terminal-performance-of-plastic-tipped-bullets.194366/#post-1364011</a></p><p></p><p>There's just not much way the cold is going to be able to affect the bullet.</p><p></p><p>Now one thing I did see many years back in sub 20F weather was that sometimes the tips on Nosler BT's would get brittle enough to break off when loading them into the magazine or when chambering one as it contacted the feed ramp.</p><p></p><p>From what he's written I don't see that to be the case here. If anything from his last post the problem may have more to do with excessive impact velocity causing them to essentially turn inside out which is something I have seen in a lot of the BT's and one of the main reasons I quit shooting them as they tended just to punch pretty much a caliber sized hole all the way through doing very little damage or go off like a bomb causing too much meat loss to suit me.</p><p></p><p>Hornady has their tried and true Interbond back in production and if I were going to go back to shooting a traditional bonded bullet I wouldn't fool with anything else. There are higher BC bullets out there but I've never had an Interbond fail me in any way on literally hundreds of animals.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WildRose, post: 1364502, member: 30902"] I'll refer you back to this. In addition to the heat from the chamber and friction while riding down the barrel the tip of the bullet is heating to 600-800F in flight. [URL]https://www.longrangehunting.com/threads/cold-temp-affecting-terminal-performance-of-plastic-tipped-bullets.194366/#post-1364011[/URL] There's just not much way the cold is going to be able to affect the bullet. Now one thing I did see many years back in sub 20F weather was that sometimes the tips on Nosler BT's would get brittle enough to break off when loading them into the magazine or when chambering one as it contacted the feed ramp. From what he's written I don't see that to be the case here. If anything from his last post the problem may have more to do with excessive impact velocity causing them to essentially turn inside out which is something I have seen in a lot of the BT's and one of the main reasons I quit shooting them as they tended just to punch pretty much a caliber sized hole all the way through doing very little damage or go off like a bomb causing too much meat loss to suit me. Hornady has their tried and true Interbond back in production and if I were going to go back to shooting a traditional bonded bullet I wouldn't fool with anything else. There are higher BC bullets out there but I've never had an Interbond fail me in any way on literally hundreds of animals. [/QUOTE]
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