Hornady A-Tip

[passinggas33]

I’m not very ballistic savvy by any means, but when I look at the offerings from Hornady is there a reason why the A-tip isn’t discussed more? I see lots about the Eld-x and Eld-m for long range shooting. But the a-tip has an even higher ballistic coefficient than the rest of them. Help me understand why somebody wouldn’t chose that bullet in say a 6 CM?

 

[wind gypsy]

People do for shooting steel and punching paper. I don’t use them hunting because of reports of erratic terminal performance.

 

[Northpark]

Unproven terminal performance on game maybe? Cost? They are a little pricey compared to the ELD line. I haven’t played with them yet mostly due to a lack of time but was thinking of trying some 166gr in my 7-08ai for coues deer.

 

[SloppyJ]

Plenty of mention on the web of inconsistent terminal performance. And frankly, they're super expensive, almost double, when compared to the other popular choices when it comes to hunting.

 

[passinggas33]

This is all good info. I haven’t searched too hard and it didn’t come up with much here on Rokslide so I didn’t know much about them. It sounds like with the cost, the juice might not be worth the squeeze.