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Hornady Flex tip speculation
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I was setting on the toilet, I mean I was in the library the other night looking at a Midway USA catalogue and had a thought about the flex tip bullets I was looking at. Iv heard of stories of pointed lead soft point bullets leaving the muzzle with no point on them due to the tremendous g-forces acting on the soft lead tip. I wondered that if we could see a high speed photo or video of a flex tip leaving the muzzle if it would still be pointed or mushroomed over the tip of the bullet!? I have ABSOLUTELY no idea if this is even the case but I wonder? Any thoughts?
 
Posts: 28 | Location: Tennessee | Registered: 27 December 2006Reply With Quote
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All I can tell you is that I have tried them in 30-30, 308me, 35 rem, 44 mag and 45/70. The ammo shoots unbelieveably accurate in my rifles. Don't know what the tip looks like but its working!
 
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I would like to add that I'm not trying to dump on these bullets. I have had nothing but good experience with Hornady products. I have not loaded any of these but I'm sure i'll buy some and love them.
 
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I mean I was in the library the other night looking at a Midway USA catalogue


Good to know I'm not the only one!

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The bad thing is when you sit there ten minutes longer than you need to whilst looking a magazine!
 
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The LE ammo prints about 6 MOA in my 30-30 and there have been other similar cases discussed over at Marlinowners.com. This is apparently an individual gun quirk, but some have speculated that those gummy tips are deforming enough to create yaw in the bullet and make it very inaccurate.


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Teddy Roosevelt 1885.
 
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I think Speer used to advertise that they had high speed photos of spitzer bullets in which the lead tip set back when fired. They did not claim they were Speer bullets but they used it as a marketing rationalization for the Mag-Tip bullets.
 
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