Ike Eastman here and today we're going to go on a hunt with Steve Hornady and he's
going to explain a little bit about the technologies that Hornady developed for
this new bullet
what's the new technology behind the new bullet
well there's two things that are
going on here and the one is this is we're calling this a heat shield tip
okay and the reason are we calling it that is
this is an extremely high melt plastic very high and what we've discovered is
that the polymer tips that we use and everybody uses begin to melt when
they're going to the air it changes the ballistic performance of
the bullet as it goes downrange and we decided we want to correct that
so using Doppler radar we're able to track the flight of that bullet and the
velocity of that bullet every instant of its trip from the muzzle till it hits
the ground and we were able to see in that flight where that plastic began to
change the performance of the bullet going to the heat shield tip now you can
prevent that from occurring basically all the way out to until it
hits the ground 1,700 1,800 yards.
So the plastic tip maintains its integrity?
Exactly the other thing that we did with that is we've designed this is a hole in
the ELD-X it's an heavy for caliber this is a 200 grain bullet and in 30 caliber
that is you know kind of uncommon at this point of time has an extremely
efficient ballistic shape o-jive it is a boat tail bullet and we've been able
to really raise the coefficient of drag on this bullet substantially and I say
that very specifically that way because what happened with the Doppler radar
instead of creating a ballistic coefficient which is a number that has
been plugged into a formula and you use the formula to predict the balistic
behavior with a drag coefficient and the Doppler radar we're not trying to
calculate the performance we're documenting the performance over its
entire range and we know what that coefficient of drag is so now we can
give you the precise trajectory over whatever range that you're picking does
each bullet change slightly yes it has to because it's not perfect you want to
know what else happens the rifling engraving changes the ballistic
efficiency of a bullet well because there's drag coming off of those grooves
the shallower the grooves the less drag there is on the bullet more efficient a
bullet is going downrange and we can predict the bad thing about that is that
then your actual ballistic performance of a bullet is actually gun specific oh
yeah now for the vast majority of hunters that's not going to matter that
much they're still going to be close enough when you start getting into
military and law enforcement snipers where they've got in a very very precise
wind building or trying to reach you then it's going to matter but they can
track it you've got to figure it out right and what you're going to see in
our literature eventually is you will see ballistic coefficient go away and
drag coefficient come in but it is actually the coefficient of drag that
makes the difference and you use that drag coefficient and
precisely map the trajectory. That's very interesting maybe we'll test
this on a live animal it's what you got to do