I'm toying with the idea of asking Hawk to make a light slippery bullet for my 9.3x62 for fun and to see if I can turn it into a fast flat Red rifle with, how shall we say, a little more authority.

The design criteria would be to have a shank the length of the neck immediately sloping in the biggest ogive that gives a COL of 2.2inches.

Jacket thickness to penetrate up to 500lb deer (I imagine .030")

Early indications based on mutilating a 286gr partition are that bullet weight for such a design would be around 200gr.

Seeing as I can drive Norma 232gr at 2600fps I reckon these will go 2750fps and be a deal slipperier.

What do you think, will these work or does this fall into the category of (expensive) time wasting?

If I changed the design to a thicker jacket would they penetrate something like an elk/moose or would the SD be so poor as to limit penetration whatever the jacket thickness?

I have had such miserable results with Hawk bullets that I wouldn't recommend them to anyone..They just come apart from time to time like any other conventional bullet, even in .035 at moderate velocity on the smaller species of plainsgame and deer.

I would consider a GS bullet of that weight and you could still maintain your secional density as the monolithics are long for weight....

I have had great luck with the 250 gr. Swift and Nosler Balistic tips.

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Ray Atkinson

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