FMJ yaw and upset performance

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First impressions don't matter that much with gel tests.

Au contraire! Again, in the grand laboratory of marketing cartridges on the internet, to which I've had a front-row seat lo these many years, I've seen this firsthand.

The 6.8 developed much of its reputation based on early gel test photos by Gary Roberts using a preproduction Hornady projectile with an "illegal" preformed cavity at excessive velocity. No amount of subsequent "facts" can ever serve to dissuade a significant percentage of 6.8 fans that their cartridge is not the deadliest man-stopper since the invention of the 155mm artillery shell.

First impressions, in regard to gel tests, are everything.

Stan, you're far to reasonable for your own good. You may be able to change your opinions based on subsequent data. The unwashed masses, generally, do not. It is with these that I would concern myself.

AA, ultimately, will do what they want. If I were advising them, and anybody else for that matter, I would never release preproduction data into a very competitive and unfriendly market.

John