Richard Head
Member
- Joined
- Jul 2, 2013
- Messages
- 137
I'm looking at the Hornady 9th edition reloading manual and comparing the .357 140 grain ftx to the .357 140 grain XTP and I can't find any advantages for the FTX over the older XTP whatsoever. The FTX has a plastic tip that's supposed to give it superior ballistics over the XTP, but the XTP actually has a higher ballistic coefficient, 169 for the XTP and 160 for the FTX. The FTX also requires cases to be trimmed much shorter than the XTP reducing case capacity and therefor velocity. Hornady shows a maximum velocity of 1650 fps for the FTX and 1900 fps max velocity for the XTP. That's a huge advantage so what's the point of the more expensive and more time consuming to load FTX bullets, am I missing something?