Why can't Nosler make their bullets with a Protected Point? At least from the .338" and up. I know it probably has nothing to say, but I HATE to see the point bendt, or flat in the magazine.

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Shoot well, and hit hard.

Arild.

Make that an Amen from another Nosler fan.

~Holmes

I have never noticed any significant decrease in accuracy in using loads that have battered tips in my .375.

Real good idea, forward it to Nosler. But don't limit it to the larger bores. How about a "ballistic tip partition"?

I also just hate the turned over points---------BUT-------when I sight my rifles in I single load------just carrying them in the mag. doesn't seem to bend them for me--------once you shoot----ya----I take a hand pencil sharpner---stick cartridge in & turn 2 times----wa--la a perfect shaped bullet again.

I also hate seeing the points damaged, but I have never been able to prove it really effects accuracy much if any.

There is a benchrest guy that once wrote that scratching the heal of the bullet (last part to leave the barrel)while seating it will hurt accuracy far more than a bent tip. I can't say I've done much testing but one day I was at a friends and was shooting 300 wby at 200yds. I had a 2.5" group going and noticed a pliers laying on the bench. I pinched the lead on the tip of a partition and fired it at the target--it went right in with the rest of them. One shot doesn't prove much but it would have done the job on any hunt I've been on!

I have performed that experiment of bending the dickens out of the tips to the extreme and never found one bit of accuracy difference in several different guns...but nothing in Gundome is written in stone.

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Ray Atkinson

ray@atkinsonhunting.com
atkinsonhunting.com

If they made PP partitions than you might as well shoot a FMJ as I bet that it would shed the nose instantly on impact. And this is already a problem with some regular partitions and real high velocity