Physiological changes caused by reloading???

[dreadi]

Youtube, funny.  This was 1987.  I was wearing a Jedi helmet.

What Jedi wore helmets?

Lol. Luke wears a blast helmet in episode 4 while training on the millennium falcon. Good to see I wasn’t the only one who went to fire their first reloaded rounds while wearing my brown pants

I see what you're saying now.

[NRA4LIFE]

Luke always had a helmet on when flying the X-Wing.  I'm guessing that would take some serious abuse.

[dreadi]

Luke always had a helmet on when flying the X-Wing.  I'm guessing that would take some serious abuse.

But did he wear it when he was a Jedi?


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[yorketransport]

As much as I love Hammer bullets, watch your stability with that bullet in a 1:9" twist. I've had the chance to shoot and test a larger variety of Hammer bullets than most folks, and in my experience, they really perform best when they're "over" stabilized. They'll shoot well on paper, but their penetration can be a little unpredictable after impact.

Just for a little background, they made the original 304gr HH in .338 for my 338 SnipeTac. It should have stabilized in a 1:8" twist, but it was barely making it even at over 3200 fps. There was a revised 303gr version with a slightly shorter boattail and less aggressive ogive which shot well on paper but struggled to give predictable terminal performance at low elevation. The same story goes for the 168gr .277 in a 1:7" twist.

I don't want to sound like I'm bad-mouthing Hammers since I currently load 14 different bullets from them and I've bought 32 different varieties, plus a few more that they've sent me to play with and test. It's just that Hammers earned their reputation for terminal performance based on high impact RPMs as a result of either fast twists or light weight bullets at ultra velocity.

[jrebel]

As much as I love Hammer bullets, watch your stability with that bullet in a 1:9" twist. I've had the chance to shoot and test a larger variety of Hammer bullets than most folks, and in my experience, they really perform best when they're "over" stabilized. They'll shoot well on paper, but their penetration can be a little unpredictable after impact.

Just for a little background, they made the original 304gr HH in .338 for my 338 SnipeTac. It should have stabilized in a 1:8" twist, but it was barely making it even at over 3200 fps. There was a revised 303gr version with a slightly shorter boattail and less aggressive ogive which shot well on paper but struggled to give predictable terminal performance at low elevation. The same story goes for the 168gr .277 in a 1:7" twist.

I don't want to sound like I'm bad-mouthing Hammers since I currently load 14 different bullets from them and I've bought 32 different varieties, plus a few more that they've sent me to play with and test. It's just that Hammers earned their reputation for terminal performance based on high impact RPMs as a result of either fast twists or light weight bullets at ultra velocity.

Do you think the 260’s would be better performers?   Maybe I should just go lighter to gain the speed. 

Would you suggest any other bullets in the 275-300 grain flavor that will perform better?   

Thanks. 

[yorketransport]

Do you think the 260’s would be better performers?   Maybe I should just go lighter to gain the speed. 

Would you suggest any other bullets in the 275-300 grain flavor that will perform better?   

Thanks.

If you want to use a monometal bullet, I'd stick with something in the 250-260gr range. I'd look at the 260gr Hammer Hunter, 250gr CE Lazer, or the 250gr Super Bulldozer2. I've shot a lot of the 260gr HH and I like them a lot. The faster you push them, the better they perform. The 250 Lazers perform very similar to the Hammer with the petals designed to break off and tear stuff up. The Super Bulldozer is designed to hold the petals and retain more weight. I prefer the way the Hammer and Cutting Edge bullets perform, but the Bulldozers have a strong following.

You end up making so many compromises when trying to shoot a heavy weight copper bullet that I think you give up some of their benefits. They're so long that you end up either single feeding them, or seating them so deep into the case that you give up a lot of potential performance. Seating them deeper will give you a reduced velocity, which compromises the bullet performance. If you do have a mag box or chamber that will let you seat them longer, you need to be sure that your barrel's actual twist will give you the stability you need to get good results.