Balistic tip , plastic or metal , pro and con

Edinburgh Rifles said:

Plastic tips - tits on a bull
They do nothing more than impact external BC
Pull the tips and run the same bullet as a hollow point and you will see and increase in expansion. Tested them in clay and gel
Most ballistic tipped bullets that expand violently or have a reputation for expansion at range do so because the meplat is a very thin jacket
Compare ELD-X vs ELD-M

Metal tips with flat perpendicular shoulder to the meplat are much less significant than those with radial junctions to the hollow point
Peregrine are the latter
Tapping the tip (of the bullet!) on the table will nitiate meplat expansion
The rear of the hollow point has a radial surface like the back of a trumpet

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Bavarianbrit said:

Then there is the other issue about micro plastic from the destroyed tip being left in the environment, very little of course compared to plastic bags flying about in the countryside but should we all not be doing our bit for the health of the small animals that nibble grass etc? Hornady do not care it seems and how many millions of these tips get shot per year worldwide?

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Bavarianbrit said:

Then there is the other issue about micro plastic from the destroyed tip being left in the environment, very little of course compared to plastic bags flying about in the countryside but should we all not be doing our bit for the health of the small animals that nibble grass etc? Hornady do not care it seems and how many millions of these tips get shot per year worldwide?

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