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Cold temp affecting terminal performance of plastic tipped bullets
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<blockquote data-quote="bpcrshooter" data-source="post: 1364727" data-attributes="member: 100251"><p>I personally am calling B.S. on Hornady's claims, first melting point of lead is like 620F and if they add any tin it goes up to 750F very quickly, once below that temp lead hardens the BC doesn't continue to drop it levels out (if fps stays constant) and the 1/4 a second its there at those temps the tip might go from a sharp point to a round point... maybe. Ever walked on a berm and looked for your bullets and found others that look like you could just load them and shoot again (with lead tips) Don't get me wrong, I like the ELD/ELD-X line of bullets as well as there other bullets and use them a lot, but there claims are to too far fetched for me to believe. Ok off my soapbox.</p><p></p><p>Back a while I was reading where someone was annealing their bonded bullets and found that they got better/deeper penetration and less fragmentation by doing so. Maybe it was ballistic studies?? but there was a section on bullets acting different at different temps. I will look and see what I find and report back/</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bpcrshooter, post: 1364727, member: 100251"] I personally am calling B.S. on Hornady's claims, first melting point of lead is like 620F and if they add any tin it goes up to 750F very quickly, once below that temp lead hardens the BC doesn't continue to drop it levels out (if fps stays constant) and the 1/4 a second its there at those temps the tip might go from a sharp point to a round point... maybe. Ever walked on a berm and looked for your bullets and found others that look like you could just load them and shoot again (with lead tips) Don't get me wrong, I like the ELD/ELD-X line of bullets as well as there other bullets and use them a lot, but there claims are to too far fetched for me to believe. Ok off my soapbox. Back a while I was reading where someone was annealing their bonded bullets and found that they got better/deeper penetration and less fragmentation by doing so. Maybe it was ballistic studies?? but there was a section on bullets acting different at different temps. I will look and see what I find and report back/ [/QUOTE]
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