Yew tree bullets
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Foxyboy43
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Hmmm. Not a very common occurrence judging by many reports and the other posts - do you know what velocity they were doing, plz?
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Utectok
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Mine go at 2960fps and work just fine
In short no. The fastest I know anyone pushing any of the TLR’s is 3,650fps which is the 6mm out of a 6x284. They work fine. The fastest in 6.5 is around 3,250-3,300 (6.5x284 and 6.5 PRC) again they work as designed.
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Rich
Indeed, sometimes people mistake the small exit for pencilling on occasion, one look at the vitals will confirm that the bullets have fragmented as designed.Hmmm. Not a very common occurrence judging by many reports and the other posts - do you know what velocity they were doing, plz?
Thanks
Cheers
R
Now that you mention it.
I could see how you would mistake that for pencilling.
Utectok
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I did have a weird one with the last stag I shot.. big entry wound and no exit wound… the tip was just inside the carcass. A big thwack when it hit too. But the deer was in a dead larch plantation and I think the bullet hit a branch first and started expanding then hit the deer. It was really hard to see all the branches…. Anyway dead deer which I found eventually one lung shot out and damage to the top of the heart and liver. Not ideal shot placement but these bullets are quite forgiving and the deer went maybe 40m. Just in a burn hence trouble finding it.
Can’t blame yew tree bullets for a poorly placed shot or the branches!! But hey ho dead stag so all good!
Can’t blame yew tree bullets for a poorly placed shot or the branches!! But hey ho dead stag so all good!
I'm a bit late to the party but my experience of them is also very positive. I've not used anywhere near as many of them as I thought I would have by now, a few issues close to home have meant I've not been out as much as I'd like, but those I have used have performed flawlessly. In the long term I will be running all my centrefires on these, once I've used up stocks of what I'm using now.
Besides being really good bullets, I also found Rich a very decent fella to deal with. That goes a long way. And it's a local business, which I will always choose over buying from abroad.
Besides being really good bullets, I also found Rich a very decent fella to deal with. That goes a long way. And it's a local business, which I will always choose over buying from abroad.
Bavarianbrit
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Fascinated by the inputs on here. Why they do perform so much better from this cottage industry company than those from the big players? Is there a difference in the Brinell hardness of the copper used from Yew Trees?
Utectok
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I believe that Barnes early bullets used to have petals that came off but the US market we’re obsessed with bullet weight retention and they reformed them to retain their petals. I guess this is a carry over from lead where most of the premium bullets boast high weight retention. In actual fact with yew tree you get the best of both worlds the core of the bullet punches on through the carcass and the front fragments (pinkie nail sized flakes) and causes bleeding. Some on here who are selling other bullets get very upset about the metal in the carcass but I’m not sure it bothers me a bit if they are in the flesh they are easy to remove but 95% of the time they come out with the gralloch.
There is usually a normal amount of spoilt carcass.
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I think a lot of the American bullets are designed to shoot bigger game than we have? Europeans I suppose would give more consideration to boar? That's just a guess. I'm pretty sure the production method is different, the Yew Tree being machined and the likes of Barnes being swaged I believe?
In terms of terminal performance, I wouldn't describe them as performing ‘better’ as such, they perform differently.
As I have said many times before, I tried the vast majority of commonly available non lead bullets a few years ago and didn’t like them so at the time just went back to lead. Personally I do not ascribe to the 100% weight retention ethos as being a benefit on soft skinned UK quarry.
Having started from a blank sheet of paper AND knowing that being such a small enterprise initially that I could not afford to have anything on sale that didn’t work 100% of the time, I did huge amounts of testing varying critical dimensions of the hollow points initially to get the terminal effect I wanted.
Once I was satisfied with the standard hollow points I moved on to the TLR’s. These were another problem all together. You see plenty of blanket comments ‘tips promote expansion’. What that should read is ‘correctly designed tips and internal hollow points promote expansion’. A plastic tip in a lead cored copper jacketed bullet will almost always have the desired effect. Not so in a lead free bullet. The design of the tip, internal hollow point and indeed the interference fit between the two has a huge effect on the terminal performance of the bullet.
Ballistically the TLR bullets are better than anything that I know of in their respective weight classes. That is a function of machining the bullets and not having to eject the bullet from a die. The most efficient shapes for spin stabilised projectiles are well known and documented in Robert McCoy’s book Modern Exterior Ballistics. As such the external shapes of the bullets were the easiest part of the process.
I hope that goes someway to answering your query.
Cheers
R
Bavarianbrit
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My hat off to you sir for achieving the effect you wanted, engineering is not often so successful. Plus for it to work over the wide range of calibres is impressive to me as the input is from happy users and not from your advertising.
Bavarianbrit
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Exporting to the EU yet?
Bavarianbrit
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Shame, PM me if you do as my old mate of 25+ years has had a gun shop there for 30 years.
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