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Thanks. All I need to know. I’ll use the 108s or 109s
I’m building my daughter a 25prc around the a tip. If we don’t like the performance we’ll drop to the eldm. I’m hoping to build a sweet little back country rifle I can use too when she’s not looking! That bullet out of a short barrel doing 3000fps looks like a winner on paper!The new .257 A tip is intriguing. Pretty good BC increase over the 134. Not sure I want to be the guinea pig for terminal performance..the 134s have been perfect so far
I shot or witnessed three animals shot with 110 Atips and three shot with 230 Atips. It's either a dramatic wound channel or a field tip wound channel. Very heckle and jeckel.@Ryan Avery, @Formidilosus, Are there enough reports on the 6mm 110 A-Tip on game to say whether or not to use it.
In my opinion, the metal tip is not consistently coming off.What causes the inconsistency’s? Is it jacket? Core? Aluminum tip? Something else? Seems like they should work just like an eldm
I don't have any personal experience shooting anything with them but I tend to think it could have something to do with what they hit upon impact and how fast they're going when they make contact.What causes the inconsistency’s? Is it jacket? Core? Aluminum tip? Something else? Seems like they should work just like an eldm
NOT recommended for big game hunting!!!
The A tips are ‘inconsistently inconsistent’ and I quit using them because they’re unreliable delivering wound channels.
@Ryan Avery My gunsmith showed me pictures of different weight class A-tips that he’s cross sectioned. Very interesting. Some have zero void, others have a big void. I assume this is why different class bullets are showing different characteristics on animals. I think the bigger the void, the better chance of an explosive reaction.
Yep I've also seen them cross sectioned.@Ryan Avery My gunsmith showed me pictures of different weight class A-tips that he’s cross sectioned. Very interesting. Some have zero void, others have a big void. I assume this is why different class bullets are showing different characteristics on animals. I think the bigger the void, the better chance of an explosive reaction.
Sure.You mean consistently inconsistent?
Curious which a tip bullets you have used and how many animals do you have a shot with them?Sure.
The A-tip does NOT deliver consistent terminal wound channels. Period.
The A-tip is NOT a hunting bullet.
For hunting,..it’s a fail.
Period.
The 153 I saw cross sectioned had ZERO cavity behind the a tip. I wonder if that had something to do with it.153 gr
Six.
Possible.The 153 I saw cross sectioned had ZERO cavity behind the a tip. I wonder if that had something to do with it.