he said bonded bullets are less accurate because the process requires heating and somehow that hinders the process of precisely forming jackets.
“When bonding the jacket to the core, both the core and jacket are heated. This anneals the copper jacket that is not yet to shape. Being now dead soft, when the bullet is swaged in the dies it doesn’t react in the usual manner, leading to offset squishing and heavy areas. But it’s more important to be soft at long range and still stay together up close, those are the compromises.”
That was how it was explained to me by an acquaintance. I have zero firsthand knowledge of how a bonded bullet is actually made.
To the point of tipped-points and pointing tips…
Tipped hollow points won’t clog with fur and become a FMJ.
A tipped bullet style has a more consistent B.C.
If this was not important, there wouldn’t be meplat trimmers and bullet pointing dies. Competitors will sacrifice a tiny bit of B.C. By trimming the hollow points shorter, to gain more consistency by pointing every bullet identically.
And, good luck pulling that tip out without bullet damage. While maybe not the same thing, I tried removing the tips from some 50 caliber FTXs to see if I could salvage them for my Deagle. Nope.
Dang things were hard to
cut off even. (And they were still too long.)
