Hammer HHT tip installation PITA!

[SDHNTR]

I’m not crimping any centerfire bolt action cartridge.

 

[dgfavor]

I’m not crimping any centerfire bolt action cartridge.

Right on! Tipless and crimpless!!

Turns out I actually bought 100, not 50. 20" down the drain...but strangely satisfying.

 

[01Foreman400]

I bought 200 during the sale. I’ve done around 700 tips now. Going to add bullet manufacturing to my resume.

 

[Mtndawger]

I’m busy enough in life without having to do more tedious things, like installing tips, yielding marginal results. It’s one reason why I’m staying with hammer hunters until something sways me enough to change. I also don’t have time or energy to wring my hands over whether BC’ s are accurate or not as it doesn’t really effect me for the distances I shoot and how I hunt.

 

[Mtndawger]

Yes, no doubt. I am one of those people. I started to look for a lead free bullet about a year or more before California forced us to do so. I looked at all I could find on the market, CEB, Hammer, Hornady CX, Barnes, DRT and Lehigh Defense.
DRT and Lehigh were the ones I focused on, unfortunately I could not obtain DRT bullets in California at that time (I believe that has changed now, still not sure though) so I choose to go with Lehigh. Very glad I did. I bought close to 1000 of those bullets for half the price of Hammers. They shoot very accurate and they wreck animals. Glad I still have a good pile of them, especially since they discontinued the .264 122 gr. If I run out I'd never go with Hammers.

Good to know about the Lehighs. I’ve got my kids 6.5 creeds set up shooting gorilla 130 controlled chaos but they haven’t tagged anything yet with them. I haven’t read much about their real world performance.