Originally posted by stanc
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Some may view this primarily as a tactical bullet. Doesn't matter. As I once discussed in my 'long nose, larger diameter nose/meplat junction proposal' this makes the bullet very easy to tune for other purposes. You have more surface to work with. Want a varmint bullet, give it a larger cavity and poly nose shaft. Deer bullet, make the cavity and corresponding poly nose shaft smaller so there is more copper at the meplat. And so on. It's really an inexpensive way for a manufacturer to optimize the shape and then later optimize the same bullet from the same production line for different terminal performances. That and volume is what should keep the price down and guaranty a successful bullet line.
Edit: Had another Fireball whisky shot and decided to expand in case somebody didn't catch my original post on this subject. The bullet is inexpensively tunable. Say Barnes for instance gives us a bullet run for beta testing and we find out that it over or under expands. All the manufacturer has to do is order different poly noses that cost them pennies and use a larger/smaller drill bit for the cavities. Done. No expensive alloy changes etc. And that's why it would also sell as a mid sized 6.5 bullet, CM ,260, 47 Lapua, Sweed possibly with a smaller nose cavity change. With the long nose length it should shoot accurately even from the long throated Sweeds. With the great trajectory, penetration and lack of meat damage this bullet should be proposed as an all round 6.5 bullet and not limited to the 6.5G consumer. The truth is most game is taken at under 300 yards, this bullet will greatly extend that but the point is in my 260 it will recoil like the traditional mid range cartridges like the 243, 250 Savage and 257 Roberts and still outrange them all. I can't think of a better low recoil, long range, good penetrating, low meat loss bullet combo.
Barnes has stated that the initial LRX line will be expanded, let this be the lower SD 6.5mm version.
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