FMJ yaw and upset performance

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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.

Okay, John -- I must admit, ya got me on that one! :p

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.

But didn't you do precisely that, when you posted the gel test of the pre-production 123gr SMK? And I don't know of any instance where that info has been used against 6.5 Grendel. Do you?

That's why I don't understand the objection to showing the gel test of the pre-production 110gr FMJ. Since you've been one of the staunchest advocates of 6.5 Grendel for military use, I'd have thought you would be right alongside me in wanting to see how a military-type load would perform.