Dan what's cooking buddy? Hey how you doing Ike oh not too bad traveling, traveling
just got back from shows looks like you're playing with some of the Hornady
new Hornady ammo yeah we got the new LDX's in last week and
looking forward to working with those pretty guys this year yeah I was talking
to those guys at shot show of course we took Steve on that hunt and he used it
to take that mule deer and they're awesome and the technology behind it
that's crazy. Oh fantastic yeah I can't believe it
it took Doppler radar to figure it out, I'm glad they did it's really
improved dramatically that the bullets performance the big thing is this is the
tip it's a heat shield tip what they figured out it is the polymer that was
provided for the tips in the industry I guess it's single sourced the polymer
yeah and so it's melting at really high
temperatures well they came up with a new plastic assignment of polymer that's
heat resistant so now it's not melting which obviously a melted tip can
cause accuracy issues oh yeah cuz you're basically taking
taking the tip of the bullet or where all of the I guess ballistics is
starting and it fits if it's folded and molded changing all of that it's
changing the drag of the bullet drastically exactly and you know the
other thing that came up with tears is called an amp manufacturing process it's
an advanced manufacturing process on the jacket and what that does is it made
this bullet extreme concentric put it more simply it's more consistent than
any bullet they've ever developed before so the jacket of thickness
doesn't vary well that's all which can cause a bullet to wobble in flight
okay you have different weights on different side of the bullet exactly
they went with boat tail design reduces drag again they went with the
interlocked ring on this one which provides more consistent expansion
through a wider range of velocities impact velocities from 1,800 to
a 2800 ft/s they're still going to create much room so let's talk about the tip of
this you know bullets haven't always had tips what's the point of the tip what's
the reason for the tip? Yeah so the reason behind the tip in any ball is to
initiate expansion and expansion is what deposits the energy from the bullet in
the game animal which results in quick clean kills one shot one kill.
Yeah exactly and so this tip here in particular you know once it
hits basically that tip is going to drive back into the bullet and if you
imagine that tip completely gone that's the size of a hollow point that remains
and so when that hollow point actually starts to expand so it creates a larger
cavity so the expansion initiate quicker at higher velocity but the larger cavity
will also expand at lower velocities they did this through Doppler like the
stuff that tells me what the weather is yeah yes that's how I learned it holy
cow that's crazy and so but ya know what it builds you to
is different tip materials it increases the ballistic coefficients of your
bullets and so they will fly basically they retain energy further so they fly
more efficiently it makes that 400-yard shot a chip shot yeah which is long then
you can calculate for it now so it's not it's not a guesstimate there's not a
range there it's an exact which obviously you want precision
shooting is exactly computable to walk right because there's so many variants
and so many so many variables out there beside the rifle the bullet and the
human you know with wind with parametric pressure with altitude all of that stuff
that if you can get this as accurate as possible that eliminates some of the
inconsistencies of the field just one more variable gone which like you're
saying we've got enough to deal with I have enough variables between my trigger
finger and my brain and the gun I don't need anymore.
Well thanks Dan I appreciate appreciate your lowness and walking us through a
little bit of this ya know like I said we'll get some test results worked up here
and we'll head out to the range we'll see how they do perfect awesome.