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Holey" bullets claimed to go faster?
serf
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serf
http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2011/12/06/bullet-compensator-compbullet/
The CompBullet is an interesting bullet made by an Italian company. The bullets, made from a solid copper alloy, have vents machined into them. According to the company, these vents reduce friction by allowing gas to lubricate the bullet as it passes through the barrel and then act as a muzzle brake as the bullet exits the barrel. They apparently also reduce smoke, increase velocity (a rocket effect as they leave the barrel) and reduce muzzle flash. In other words, they are miracle bullets.
serf
http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2011/12/06/bullet-compensator-compbullet/
The CompBullet is an interesting bullet made by an Italian company. The bullets, made from a solid copper alloy, have vents machined into them. According to the company, these vents reduce friction by allowing gas to lubricate the bullet as it passes through the barrel and then act as a muzzle brake as the bullet exits the barrel. They apparently also reduce smoke, increase velocity (a rocket effect as they leave the barrel) and reduce muzzle flash. In other words, they are miracle bullets.
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And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
miracle and magical. When sprites and elves shoot them they create supernovas.
Nope it's black holes,don't you know! [:D]
serf
The radial holes will bleed off pressure, also decreasing ever so slightly the velocity of the bullet.
The 'Rocket Effect' will be expended both radially and axially, and it is doubtful, IMO, the expansion of the gas trapped within the bullet cavity would compensate for the velocity lost as noted above.
The lubrication effect of the gas is suspect in that the gas will inevitably end up in the rifling grooves, and not between the bullet and the lands. If it did force itself between the bullet and the lands, one would think that accuracy would suffer greatly.
I don't think I'll be buying any of these.
Brad Steele
they are in Italy? I know what happened
they were walking past this one day and suddenly "omg! Freddie! wait! I have an idea! ..."
miracle and magical. When sprites and elves shoot them they create supernovas.
Sounds like the hype in an old Herter's catalog doesn't it?
Anyone remember their "Wasp Waist" bullets? Lucky if you could hit the side of a barn with one, from the inside!
And it's looks like Berger put a new spin on it.
Sounds like the hype in an old Herter's catalog doesn't it?
Anyone remember their "Wasp Waist" bullets? Lucky if you could hit the side of a barn with one, from the inside!
I've got two partial boxes of those out in my shop somewhere. My Pop claimed to love them, but everything I've read about them says he mis-rememebered.
Too old to live...too young to die...