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PHOTOSHOP GOLFBALL BULLETS NICE! I know I am switching to topflite for my next reload.

Oh great!!! Another new item in the Sinclair Catalog....

Precision Bullet Dimpling Swage Die...You'll need one for every caliber and type of bullet you shoot!

No...this isn't at all a new concept. I had a truck that was in a hail storm. It's fuel efficiency was increased by a 1/2 a mile per gallon.

A very interesting article.
Just the increase of 150fps(.338 dia projectile) is impressive, let alone the decrease in drag coefficient-sounds like a win-win.
Cool stuff.

Merely being a "hollowpoint" bullet is enough to incite the uninformed to presume that it is more disposed to mushroom, upset, tumble or fragment than a full-metal jacketed bullet. This is not true, as the USMC tests in the late 1960s, 1970s and 1980s concluded.

The second presumption is that the military uses hollow point match bullets because they want them to fragment. Again, this is not true.

In fact, the hollow point on many match bullets came about as a necessity of how the bullet jacket is formed around the lead core, from the base up. It can be left open to a centered, concentric hole more easily than it can be closed, so the bullets can be more consistently balanced and more accurate.

Some hollowpoint bullets are tougher.
For example, the Sierra 160-gr HPBT Gameking is a tougher bullet than its 160-gr SPBT Gameking.

Some FMJ bullets are prone to expand and tumble upon impact.
The 174-gr FMJ .303 British Army bullet actually has a flat nosed lead core under the hollow cavity, which is fully enclosed.

LOL! That made me lol.

Given the long known benefits with the lowly golf ball and high tech skins for sail boats etc, I'm actually suprised is was not researched 50 years ago. Optimum dimple depth and diameter still need to be studied. I'd like a box or two for my 30-378 and 257 please.

Exactly, 1minute.
When I first read this thread, my thought was "Why didn't I think of that?"

IT'S AN APRIL FOOL"S JOKE>

Look at the date.


However, I am sure that when someone finally does develop the dimpled golf ball bullet, they will find that they can't get it to shoot straight down the fairway, but will find them either hooking left or slicing right.

Metsamies:

Man! It just came to me! The kid had an acne flare up a couple of weeks ago, took 0.56 seconds off of his 100 yard dash. The potential here is endless!

hard at work with ball peen hammer on all my prarie dog rounds..LOL

So when a civilian version be available? I need a 90 gr for my 6x284