SWThomas
How easily did those tips slide in? I'm not sure I would trust tips that had to be installed in the bullet by the consumer.
Not very easily at all... they started in but I did have to use a compression tool to seat them completely and now I can not getthem out with out destroying the tip.
I am really am thinking it might be a nice option to have - Choose which option you might want to shoot + as
Semi says - it might reduce costs somewhat.
The new 200 and 250's with BT are not available yet but hopefully wil be soon.
Just out of curiosity and mostly because I forgot I had it... but any way I have a Barnes Ballistic program that has a very general BC calculator in it. So I ran the numlers...
According to the Barnes calculator... which is a rough estimate...
A 40 cal. 200 grain flat Nose/Round Nose bullet will have a BC close .169 and I think that is really close...
but
A 40 cal 200 grain flatbased spitzer has a BC of .339 - now I know that is to high but that sure moves it up in a hurry to some value.
My other option is a slender boattail spitzer which it isn't but the BC would be .389 then...
Again I know that these are high and only true ballistic calculations will be correct but it really does show promise....