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Cold temp affecting terminal performance of plastic tipped bullets
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<blockquote data-quote="bigngreen" data-source="post: 1364802" data-attributes="member: 13632"><p>I've played a lot with annealing bullets and changing their characteristic and it takes time + heat to change the function so you'd need a high enough velocity combined with a pretty decent range to even start to get close but by the time you reach enough time you loose the other needed components. The heat from firing a bullet is concentrated more on the base and bearing surface of the bullet but usually to get a bullet hot enough from firing that it changes the bullet it takes a string of firing, Berger added a few thousand to their jackets to stop this issue during a heavy string of fire, Hornady and Nosler heavier hunting bullets are far thicker and the base then thin out so they are even less effected by the heat of firing. The least likely bullets to be effected are a Hornady ELD, between the thicker base and lower jacket and the high temp tip (which I don't buy into) they are temp stable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bigngreen, post: 1364802, member: 13632"] I've played a lot with annealing bullets and changing their characteristic and it takes time + heat to change the function so you'd need a high enough velocity combined with a pretty decent range to even start to get close but by the time you reach enough time you loose the other needed components. The heat from firing a bullet is concentrated more on the base and bearing surface of the bullet but usually to get a bullet hot enough from firing that it changes the bullet it takes a string of firing, Berger added a few thousand to their jackets to stop this issue during a heavy string of fire, Hornady and Nosler heavier hunting bullets are far thicker and the base then thin out so they are even less effected by the heat of firing. The least likely bullets to be effected are a Hornady ELD, between the thicker base and lower jacket and the high temp tip (which I don't buy into) they are temp stable. [/QUOTE]
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