Kind of an oddball question/scenario here, but more posting this for sake of discussion rather than anything else.
Was out shooting this past weekend at steel at 850 yards. I shoot 30 cal 190 ABLR at 3100 fps, my buddy shooting 200 grain AB's at roughly 3050. Both rifles shooting this morning witnessed clean vapor trails to impact.
In his box he had a couple of loads where the plastic tip had fallen out of the bullet, and had subsequently sat for a while in the safe, but we became intrigued.
With the large void in the bullet, my hypothesis was an extreme increased resistance, leading to a much faster reduction and velocity, possibly causing de stabilization and tumbling at distance.
Each shot resulted in what I would expect to be just that, normal vapor trail witnessed, then before impact (15-20 feet low of target and all other shots) what was witnessed can only be described as a penny flipping in the sun light with a bright flash of copper.
So just curious if anyone knows at roughly the velocity at which 30 cal 200 grain accubonds might start to tumble.
Was out shooting this past weekend at steel at 850 yards. I shoot 30 cal 190 ABLR at 3100 fps, my buddy shooting 200 grain AB's at roughly 3050. Both rifles shooting this morning witnessed clean vapor trails to impact.
In his box he had a couple of loads where the plastic tip had fallen out of the bullet, and had subsequently sat for a while in the safe, but we became intrigued.
With the large void in the bullet, my hypothesis was an extreme increased resistance, leading to a much faster reduction and velocity, possibly causing de stabilization and tumbling at distance.
Each shot resulted in what I would expect to be just that, normal vapor trail witnessed, then before impact (15-20 feet low of target and all other shots) what was witnessed can only be described as a penny flipping in the sun light with a bright flash of copper.
So just curious if anyone knows at roughly the velocity at which 30 cal 200 grain accubonds might start to tumble.
