Originally Posted by
Relentless Pursuit
Gags,
Quit guessing...(please).
Should you be enthralled with faux boolit length,please muse the Lapua Scenar and it's grandiose air-filled nose cone. It's HP nose is stretched,to add copious BC and that increased length mandates reserve twist RPM...despite it's launch speeds being inordinate to it's actual BC value(s).
Do homogenous copper BC's trump cup/core values...as a rule?!!? NOPE...........
"As a rule" I am sceptical of things that sound to good to be true. I looked at the 155 Scenar bullet a while back because its claimed BC.508 was so high relative other bullets in its weight range.
As one would expect when actual measured numbers were compared to the claimed numbers by knowledgeable shooters the claimed BC was significantly overstated. Measured BC came in at around .459. Keep in mind that the Scenar is a match bullet and its construction is not limited by the integrity demands of the hunting bullet you are comparing it to.
That big hollow area behind the point is just a great engineering solution to overcome the density disadvantage of lead in the lighter bullets without the cost of copper.
If you are comparing match bullets to hunting bullets it is apples and oranges but even at that the lead bullets come up short to the new copper hunting bullets from Nosler.