RE: Powerbelt Disintegrates
Sproulman,
In response to this:
"then they could say on other box,HEY SPROUL, IF YOU USE IN-LINE,HIGH VELOCITY, HERE IS OUR NEW PLATINUM BULLET..they will not blow -up..i dont know if the new bullets blow up,but,if they dont, thats way i would sell the bullets.. "
The Platinum bullet is just the same "elongated round ball" with a different thin Platinum coating instead of a thin Copper Coating. My brother hit a large buck on opening day in the front shoulder at 60 yards with a Platinum PB, 348g. It blew hide off the deer, lots of hair and and left several fragements of the bullet on the ground in the leaves for a "blood trail". We never recovered the deer, my brother was 'very very angry" about their terminal performance, so he sent the fragements and all his extra PBs back to CVA and said "make a better bullet'.
If CVA, the makers of PBs, bond their jacket to the bullet and make the bullet stronger, like their dangerous game bullet and sell it for $1 each, then they got something for a hunting bullet. Everybody recommendsPBs because they are so easy to load and they are accurate as heck--very very accurate,but CVAdoesn't say "use only in the hunting situations where you have clear rib shots on big game, they will NOT penetrate large boned game if hit in the shoulder, they will wound the game and you will NOT recover it". Sort of like the cigarette warnings,
"Caution CVA PBsshould be shot for the ribs only, they are an expanding HP bullet, designedtoexpand on impact, causing it famous devistation".
I think that would hurt sales, therefore they won't do it.
I know they work for you, and that is great.
Chap Gleason VA