Odd looking bullet…what does this ring do?

[Calvin45]

Hi all, at the gun counter today I opened up a box of Sellier and Bellot 7mm rem mag just to see what they looked like….ive never seen such an odd looking projectile! There's this rebated ring thingy on the ogive, a sharp 90 degree drop before the ogive continues. The pictures will explain it better.

What on earth is the point of this bullet geometry? Does it somehow control expansion? Facilitate cleaner holes in a paper target like a Wadcutter? Is there some terminal performance benefit? I imagine it must do bad things to an already bad bc on your basic soft point flat base design but I'm very intrigued. What can the fine folks of LRH tell me about this? It's not a fluke or a misformed bullet, they all look like that.

 

[CRJR45]

Hi all, at the gun counter today I opened up a box of Sellier and Bellot 7mm rem mag just to see what they looked like….ive never seen such an odd looking projectile! There's this rebated ring thingy on the ogive, a sharp 90 degree drop before the ogive continues. The pictures will explain it better.

What on earth is the point of this bullet geometry? Does it somehow control expansion? Facilitate cleaner holes in a paper target like a Wadcutter? Is there some terminal performance benefit? I imagine it must do bad things to an already bad bc on your basic soft point flat base design but I'm very intrigued. What can the fine folks of LRH tell me about this? It's not a fluke or a misformed bullet, they all look like that.

I bought some of the exact same ammo , never could get a good answer to that question , I'm all ears .....

 

[FEENIX]

Hi all, at the gun counter today I opened up a box of Sellier and Bellot 7mm rem mag just to see what they looked like….ive never seen such an odd looking projectile! There's this rebated ring thingy on the ogive, a sharp 90 degree drop before the ogive continues. The pictures will explain it better.

What on earth is the point of this bullet geometry? Does it somehow control expansion? Facilitate cleaner holes in a paper target like a Wadcutter? Is there some terminal performance benefit? I imagine it must do bad things to an already bad bc on your basic soft point flat base design but I'm very intrigued. What can the fine folks of LRH tell me about this? It's not a fluke or a misformed bullet, they all look like that.

 

[338 dude]

Kind of like a wadcutter?

 

[Calvin45]

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Well that was easy. Don't know why I didn't just go to the website haha.

Question: do you think it actually does either of those things?

 

[Varmint Hunter]

I'll bet that blunt shoulder just does wonders for the bullet's BC.

 

[FEENIX]

Well that was easy. Don't know why I didn't just go to the website haha.

Question: do you think it actually does either of those things?

I have no hands-on experience but according to this, https://ammo.com/bullet-type/soft-point-cutting-edge-spce and videos on YT, it does.

 

[HutchWV]

flies through the air like a hot knife through brick

 

[Quintus]

It looks to me like Francois fell asleep at the wheel and botched a full run of bullets. Production challenged sales to do what they do and wah-lah! Meet the semi jacketed cut through bullet.

 

[epoletna]

Poor man's Brenneke?

 

[Panhandlin Pat]

I used to buy these in 7x57 years ago before I learned to handload and before ppu was imported. They were one of the most accurate bullets in the old Spanish Mauser with a rotted out throat. I think dad shot a doe with them, can't remember. He commandeered the rifle (I only paid $70 for it) and carried it on the ranch he managed. At some point he got mud in the barrel, didn't clean it, and ruined it. It's a 45 acp now

 

[G19Jeeper]

Poor man's RWS Torpedo, I guess they call em UNI now.

 

[CRJR45]

I bought them years ago when 7RM was hard to find . Whatever popped up on ammoseek , I bought . That's when I decided to reload and to save money , HA .

 

[Horse1]

Instead of a Hornady Interlock you have a S&B Outerlock