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Everyone is seeing the writing on the walls. Lead is in trouble. Frank "I don't know what there is about buffalo that frightens me so.....He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money." - Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter, 1953 NRA Life, SAF Life, CRPA Life, DRSS lite | |||
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Darn guys at Hornady just keep doing it and doing it!....This is good news for relaoders.... I'm a tad disappointed however that they aren't making them slightly lighter than traditional weights as these bullets should be capable of higher speeds.....however.....Barnes might be looking over their shoulder! /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." Winston Churchill | |||
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YIPPEEEE_--and "smart" wts to make them in too. A 165 grain .308 will do pretty much anything a normal 180 cup and core will and more yet be a tad flatter shooting and not take up a pile of room in the cases. YOu just don't need 180 grain .308's and 150 grain 7mm bullets like nosler came out with the e-tip. Hopefully the rings work like they should and don't bother bc too much. I LIKE WHAT I SEE! | |||
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Hornady has just about the best pricing around and I hope they price these new bullets the same way (and keep the 100 count boxes). ______________________________ "Truth is the daughter of time." Francis Bacon | |||
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You are not alone in that disappointment. | |||
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Now they need to put out lead free varmint bullets And lead free .17 Mach2 and .17HMR loads. And lead free .22LR ammo. | |||
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The more monolithics become main stream the more pressure there will be to give up lead cup core. Great for the manafacturers that have a current niche advantage but not so great for the volume shooter for whom plain jane Sierra has worked perfectly well and who has no desire to switch. The day Sierra produce a monolithic we'll have passed the point of no return. | |||
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Well I'm glad I don't have many years left. All this joyfully caving in to politically correct BS is making me ill. Remember the Y2K scam? Well "global warming" and "lead-free environment" are just two more examples of ways the people who fail at big time business or politics finagle ways to control the rest of us...and feed their lust for power. My opinion. And will be tomorrow, too. My country gal's just a moonshiner's daughter, but I love her still. | |||
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and shared by a great many /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." Winston Churchill | |||
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Well said,my thoughts too. Steve | |||
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Folks What this is all about is putting reloading out of business. Monolithic bullets are more expensive, can't be made in a home work shop. How many rounds could you afford in pistol competion shooting solid copper bullets, for practice, etc. Jim "Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force." --Thomas Jefferson | |||
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Snap out of it AC. W-a-y toooo much doom and gloom in your recent posts. We all get things wrong with us as we age. Completely agree that the politically correct trash does not help. ---- I was in the local Bank last Friday. Happened to see a guy who has been and still is on the nearby City Council. He stuck his hand out and I told him what a horrible job he was doing. Mentioned I'd hoped all of the worthless "TAX and Spend" scum had been tossed out, but I saw he was STILL THERE! Went a bit farther, but he got the message. Seemed like a frown on his face as he backed away. I know " I " felt better. ----- By the way, I need you to stay around for a long time. How else am I going to find out about things like "Bullet Holes SMALLER than the Bullet"? | |||
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All copper bullets are really hard on the rifling.The best bullet is a Swift-A-Frame of the RIGHT WEIGHT.I think Nosler was right when he said "you need the right lead core to perform on big game" Lead jacketed bullets, constructed the right way, expand much quicker and greater than monometals. | |||
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Why do you say that? | |||
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They don't "give" like lead jacketed bullets.I find that the accuracy life of the barrel is reduced. | |||
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I appreciate your kind thoughts, HotCore. but, don't take my quotes of Robert Burns for Doom & Gloom. They aren't. They are expressing a philosophy about how a man should live every day of his life. Like every day was his last, and so he will be remembered the way he'd like to be remembered: Forgiving, thoughtful, charitable to his neighbors and others in need, bound by his word, hard working, etc., etc. Each one has to do so now...we won't be given advance notice that suddenly it is time to start living right. Neither can we each wait forever to do our small personal bits to make the world an even very slightly better place. As to my age and health, the health is failing severely, so relief will be exactly that. I will not die, though, just some day pass on to the next step of the journey designed by the Great Architect when the time comes, with joy at having been here, but looking forward to the next phase as well. So I do not fear the change, but do not wish to hasten it either...I'll leave the timing to the Architect, while I do what I've been placed here to do. My country gal's just a moonshiner's daughter, but I love her still. | |||
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You are DOOMED and have spent your LAST penny if you shoot all copper bullets. | |||
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Or if you shoot jacketed bullets, for that matter. But then, money is very little in life. As old Shaky-Spear said (paraphrased), "He who steals my wallet steals trash." I like Lead bullets, others like them with Copper diapers on, still others like them fully suited in Copper & Zinc. Yet others want only the Copper, Brass, or Bronze. Every man picks his own "Pie-zen". My country gal's just a moonshiner's daughter, but I love her still. | |||
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Hey AC, I do try my best to do that. You just never know when it is time. I have a feeling that you will be headed in a different direction on the Final Elevator than I'll be going. When I scan the Tally sheet, I have a bit too much on the wrong side to off-set it with all the normal good stuff. Dosen't bother me though, not much I'd change, other than add a bit more. All the more reason for you to let me(us) in on all the super-duper ACCURACY secrets you have stashed away. I already shoot mostly Remingtons so no need to fret about that. ----- By the way, if these Hornady Politically Correct Bullets(PCBs) shoot and perform on Game as well as their excellent Lead Core bullets, that might just drive the cost down on ALL the PCBs. Don't need PCBs myself, but some do seem to work right well - occasionally. | |||
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That is no surpise. They know what they are doing when it comes to making bullets. What irks me is to see so many folk leaping joyously onto the politically correct wagon bound into the sunset to do away with lead in the hands of shooters. What does that accomplish? Well, it doesn't save any animals or the environment, but it does: - eliminate the possibility for most folks of making their own bullets, and - perhaps make illegal the use of any bullets we already have, and - force us to buy smaller stocks of future bullets because of higher costs, and - fatten the wallets of larger bullet companies for less product because reloaders would have to restock all over again, and - eliminate many of the smaller bullet companies which can't afford the tooling to make the new bullets, and - decrease the number of shooters out there, correspondingly decreasing the number of defenders of the 2nd Amendment, and - prove to the "antis" how effective various back doors to "shooting control" can be. (Don't sell it as gun control, sell it as a "do-gooder, feel-better" thing. Only when it is too late will any of the dummy, hick, gun-nuts realize what has happened will become their proved thesis.) My country gal's just a moonshiner's daughter, but I love her still. | |||
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I noticed the 338 cal in 225 grs was showing a BC of .51. That ought to make for a very good trajectory with excellent energy retention upon arrival in whatever guise be it 338-06, 338 WM or others. | |||
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Hey AC, That is the kind of Unbridled Spirit I like to see in folks. Fervent passion mixed with unarguable logic. Completely agree with your post.
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I guess you can slide me in with the doom an' gloom crowd with this one. But what can you expect from a bitter American clinging to his guns and religion? Im sure that Hornady will make them more affordable than the swollen heads @ Barnes, that doesnt mean that Im suddenly going to change my mind about having no use for monolithics though. I could see Hornady droping their entire leaded line eventually for this stuff but I certianly hope not. They are heavily vested in the leaded line for sure. I seriously doubt if they will kill that cash cow anytime soon if ever. But it is an unplesant prospect. | |||
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It may not be their INTENT to kill that cash cow, but they will be helping to do so anyway. By having the major makers all ballyhooing bullets with no lead content, the antis can say "See, lead isn't even necessary. The technology to abolish it is all there and selling. For the sake of our environment, sob, sob, piss, and moan, we need to do away with those horrid lead thingys NOW!" My country gal's just a moonshiner's daughter, but I love her still. | |||
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Hot Core, Google "ask not for whom the bell tolls...." and tell use the name of the author. Hint: It isn't Robert Burns laddie! | |||
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Hey Paul, Thanks for the input, but the quote did not originate with my posts. I just copied it from AC. If it is important to know who said it, just go on and let us in on it. ----- "More power to you!" - Briscoe Darling | |||
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I thought that all copper bullets were considered AP? Pure Copper is fairly hard.... | |||
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Hot Core, It was John Donne and it IS important to get things right as there's so much misinformation on the web; e.g., some loading data. | |||
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You are right.I had just had a brain pharte when posting it. I'm especially embarrassed, as he was a lodge brother. Thanks for posting the correction. | |||
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Either start shooting mostly Speers or change you screen name to Cor Lokt | |||
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Hey Paul, Excellent point. Some would have folks believing a totally worthless non-calibrated, guessed at dimension, fudge factored HSGS fiasco is worth wasting $3000 for. Good idea to ALWAYS keep ignorance like that exposed too. Still don't know "John Donne". Just noticed AC said "he was a Lodge brother". May be too late to cheer him up a bit. I do have a vast array of Yellow plastic boxes open and in use. But, there are a lot of other boxes open, including Green boxes as well as other colors too. Some are Lead Alloy and some wear different styles of Jackets, but so far I've had no need to purchase the Politically Correct Bullets(PCBs) for the things I Kill. ----- "I don't need no stinkin' PCBs!" - Hot Core | |||
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Its a Good Thing for Hornady to get into the monolithic game. But rather than make monos with similar characteristics as TSXes, I think it would be a lot more interesting if the GMXes were designed for "classic" velocities, i.e. impact velocities ranging from 2800 down to 1800 fps or even 1700. Magnum fanciers have the A-Frame, TBBC, and TSXes to choose from, but folks who like the x51 family have fewer super-premium options. | |||
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This is not true. There is little difference between barrel/throat life achieved with jacketed lead and with copper monos that are the correct size for the bore of the rifle. Under size copper and brass monometal will accelerate wear in the throat area because the bullet will not obturate the bore as jacketed lead does. Drive band monos (not to be confused with grooved monos) are easier on any bore than jacketed lead or smooth or grooved monos. Barrel life is extended in all cases and remarkably in some cases. As far as being politically correct, GSC has been making copper monos since the early 90s. Not to be PC, but because too many failures were seen with other types, and not just with jacketed lead bullets. To tar all copper mono manufacturers with the PC brush, just because of a particular situation that has arisen in the last year or so is not taking historical facts into account. There are some calibers and applications where jacketed lead remains the bullet of choice. I also use them. Where do we go if they become unavailable? It is worrysome and a situation that needs lobbying and action. Doing it from abroad is not an option for us but, when it comes here to SA, you bet we will do our bit. CouchTater, I do not understand, what is the x51 family? | |||
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May I suggest that those who live in the U.S. and claim to be dedicated shooters had best get off their collective asses and start writing their new Democratic Congress-people NOW, before ANY legislation comes down that sewer pipe? One needs to be polite, but they also need to make several points: 1 - That HE (you) voted for the Congress member, because of the economy and the war, or whatever. So you are one who supports him/her , WHEN THEY DO THE RIGHT THINGS. Say that whether you did or not. They lie to and about us all the time; turn about is fair play. This is a war to end or save our freedom, depending on who wins. It is not a time to be meticulously innocent. Just like tactics in shooting wars, you need to both fool and scare the fight out of the enemy. 2 - That the mid-term elections are less than two years away. 3 - That you will both donate campaign money and vote against the Congress-person in that coming mid-term election if he/she votes for ANY ant-gun legislation. 4 - That the electorate put the congress-person in office and it WILL take him/her out of office if they shaft those who's interests and lifestyles they are elected & paid to represent. After the legislation is introduced is TOO LATE to begin making the bastards nervous. And then get friends and family who live at different addresses than yours to write with the same messages in their own words. AC My country gal's just a moonshiner's daughter, but I love her still. | |||
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If you voted for a democratic member of congress because of the war or the economy, despite their 2nd amendment opposition, then writing a letter will do no good. The member of congress is now elected because so many gun owners ignored the 2nd Amendment position of their candidate. You must sleep in the bed you made, for yourself and others who did the right thing by voting for pro-gun rights candidates. | |||
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This, to me, is code for "so give up the fight and let yourself get screwed". Sorry, but I don't buy it. My country gal's just a moonshiner's daughter, but I love her still. | |||
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You screwed yourself if you voted for a candidate that opposes the 2nd Amendment. You don't need to buy it. You already bought it. | |||
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I agree with you Alberta Canuck, but you’re preaching in the wrong church. Excluding the people here that can’t vote (non-citizens or to young) a good chunk of the people here voted for the Bas_ards and probably voted for Obamo too. Not one of them knew anything about the man other than his endless rhetoric about the need for “Changeâ€. His charm, wit, and youthful good looks came though in the end for him. Remember this, 53 million voters didn’t vote for him but that doesn’t make any difference to the democrats, they have a mandate and an agenda now. | |||
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You wanted “change� The new presidential cabinet is looking like the same old Clinton regime with Oboma in charge. In politics, the more you want change, the more it stays the same. The only problem this time is there aren’t enough republicans’ left to offset the democrats agenda. So be careful what you wish for, you just might get it. | |||
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