Home Forums Reloading Big Game Rifles New Tipped Hammer bullets!

Right.

Big "N" Can Go.

Beautiful bullets. Just time consuming putting the tips in. Hopefully they will perform.

I’m not an Hammer expert but I don’t think these are the ones they sell that are supposed to break apart and shed petals. Dead blow Hammers are the ones that are meant to shed the petals. These are built off of the Hammer Hunter bullets.

Hammer Hunter bullets shed their petals, as fo all Hammer bulletsvas long as velocity hasn't fallen to low

I just received my. 308, 182 hht last night

10mins to put the tips on

No biggie

So that's why they're called Hammers...

How many did you get?

LOVE them Hammers! Mailman just delivered 3 sample packs of the new tipped Hammers in 3 different calibers. Prayers do get answered. Kudo's to Steve Davis.

This^^^

Like the Barnes does not work well enough, or does not penetrate well enough. The hammers are a waste of money, I don't give a schidt how they are made..

Yeah, fu ck Nosler. They are doing none of us any favors. There are a lot of us that have told them to fu ck off. As for Hammer bullets, they are doing nothing for us either. Charging exorbitant prices as well. You can have them. They do nothing for me and I highly doubt they will do anything better than their closer competitor: Barnes. Since Barnes are much less expensive, and they have not tried to price gouge the schidt out of us, and have actually kept bullets on the shelves, they get my business. As does Hornady. I totally agree with seafire on this.

Each Hammer bullets is CNC turned with each being as precise as is possible.
I can guarantee since I've used both and happy with both but the Hammer bullets do more internal damage

My limited experience with them is that they are pretty destructive. Those petals must be huge. Nothing like a TSX.

I’m looking at trying the absolute hammers for the possible increase in velocity on an 7x57. Also looking at the 200gr. Shock Hammer for a .375 Ruger. Hoping to have a lighter recoiling option for the Ruger for hunting anything here in South Texas, plus just for fun.

From what I see Hammers designed to perform more like the early Nosler partition where the front blows off and has a smaller Diameter base section continue penetrating than a barnes that retains all the weight and keeps a wider diameter front.



Lou

I haven’t used Hammer Bullets yet, but I can see some that could work out very well. My rifle shooting doesn’t require all bullets to be big game performers. A lot of my shooting could be called plinking, varmint or target. I am one that can’t help but try other bullets. I have some rifles where I stick with one make/model for bullets and never deviate like the 69 grain SMK in the AR, but I love to explore the others. I see light bullets that are not tipped in 22 Cal from Hammer that are attractive for my K Hornet. The light 33-35 grain are some that I would like to try and the fact that you can buy sample packs is a big deal in case I’m wrong and they turn out to be junk and you’ve dropped big money on a lot of bullets. The 100 grain for the 270 seem to be interesting too. As far as tipped or not? I think I like the non tipped better, at least in the Barnes I shoot for a few calibers.

The handful of Hammers I’ve tried have been really nice to work with. Jump insensitive and very fast compared to others of similar weight. While they are more than Barnes they do offer a good veterans discount and they are available when I want them. I hope they crush it.

Looking at the 95 grain tipped version for my .25-06.
That rifle only gets the trigger pulled when it’s getting sighted in or when it shoots something. I’ve usually got some kind of “varmint load” worked up for it with a cheaper bullet as well.

The hammers look to be about $1.38 vs. .86 for the Barnes. Hopefully, I’ll still be able to pay the light bill after purchasing (insert tongue in cheek emoji here)………..

Hammer bullets are too expensive? When I count up how much money I've wasted trying to get Barnes Bullets to shoot accurately due to "distance from the lands" issues, I'd say this is debatable. I hate screwing around, wasting money and range time, going thru a whole box of bullets trying to find the right distance from the lands to get an accurate load.

Hammer bullets are reported by many to not be jump distance sensitive. In my limited experience with these bullets, this is true. Money saved.