New Hornady Atip

[Mike Casselton]

I mean my glass is almost empty and I'm worrying how long I can make this bottle last...just sayin

I think your TV has been drinking too. It's vision is all blurry.

 

[padom]

I think your TV has been drinking too. It's vision is all blurry.

Nah, I gotta get up and twist the bunny ears

 

[Mike Casselton]

Nah, I gotta get up and twist the bunny ears

That's what kids are for

 

[AIAW]

I mean my glass is almost empty and I'm worrying how long I can make this bottle last...just sayin

There's always this wonderful stuff. Please tell me you've tried it...

 

[padom]

That's better. Nothing a little tinfoil cant fix

 

[padom]

There's always this wonderful stuff. Please tell me you've tried it...

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Nope. But looks mighty tasty. Who do you want banned??

 

[Inifinty]

We got this.

Now look at what y'all have done.

 

[AIAW]

Nope. But looks mighty tasty. Who do you want banned??

It is indeed quite smooth. On my second glass tonight.

Dealer's choice on that ban-hammer. There's a rank here and they don't give the grunts the launch codes - even if they've been here 18 years

 

[padom]

I'm having back surgery in Lexington May 22. Going down 2 days early. Might have to take a drive over to Buffalo Trace and grab some to numb the pain.

 

[AIAW]

I'm having back surgery in Lexington May 22. Going down 2 days early. Might have to take a drive over to Buffalo Trace and grab some to numb the pain.

Damn that sucks. Hope it's going to be pretty straight-forward. Might want to grab a few in that case. It's smooth.

Smooth = sneaky! Right properly trashed in a jiffy.

 

[padom]

Damn that sucks. Hope it's going to be pretty straight-forward. Might want to grab a few in that case. It's smooth.

Smooth = sneaky! Right properly trashed in a jiffy.

Unfortunately not. 2 muscles torn off my left shoulder blade from auto accident.

That translates to cutting me open, scraping my left shoulder blade of scar tissue, drilling 10 holes through my shoulder blade, sewing muscles back on. Left arm in cast sticking out in front of my and legally cant drive for 6 weeks, then cant lift anything heavier than a coffee cup for 7-8 months, 12 month full recovery. I don't sleep from the pain. Best part, my insurance denied paying for surgery cause it's out if network and told me to go to an orthopedic surgeon in my area. Appealed 3x and was denied even though we told them the surgeons in my network told me to go to this guy in Kentucky.

Welcome to my world

 

[cornhusker86]

Unfortunately not. 2 muscles torn off my left shoulder blade from auto accident.

That translates to cutting me open, scraping my left shoulder blade of scar tissue, drilling 10 holes through my shoulder blade, sewing muscles back on. Left arm in cast sticking out in front of my and legally cant drive for 6 weeks, then cant lift anything heavier than a coffee cup for 7-8 months, 12 month full recovery. I don't sleep from the pain. Best part, my insurance denied paying for surgery cause it's out if network and told me to go to an orthopedic surgeon in my area. Appealed 3x and was denied even though we told them the surgeons in my network told me to go to this guy in Kentucky.

Welcome to my world

Sorry to hear about your troubles. Thoughts and prayers for you and yours.

 

[Subwrx300]

In

So the boolits look pretty cool... but at 2:58, the talking head talks proudly about machining to "with 2 to 3 thousandths of an inch..."

Whoa, wait, what???

In bullet manufacture, .003" might as well be half an inch! Am I wrong or should they should be talking about 'tenths' there. 0.0002 -3" Not three thousandths! If you put an aluminum tip or a jacket or even a core that is that far out... isn't that going to have a big effect on external ballistics?

Am I missing something here? At the Schloss Nitrocellulose workshops, I can hold better than .003" on a broken-down mule of a worn-out 1940's South Bend lathe with worn ways and no DRO. On the Monarch, I can work to tenths. For a modern CNC production equipment like they should be using at Hornady, if things are out that much... isn't something wrong?

Don't get me wrong here... I love this concept. The turned aluminum tips, the longer profile, the new ogive, etc. That's some good stuff. And I love Hornady bullets. Their 168 Match BTHP's are about all I shoot in the Sako. So I want these to be great. And will definitely try them.

But when I hear that much tolerance in a match bullet, it makes me wonder if their film editing was off... or if I am missing something?

Cheers,

Sirhr

P.S. I listened to it again... and maybe what they are referring to is that they are drawing the jacket to .002 - 3... and then afterwards doing final swaging and finishing. So I may be taking that tolerance out of context. But I'd like to know for sure!

In machining, some machinists refer to ten thousandths (.0001) as "thousandths" rather than ten thousandths. Have a few buddies that work in tool and die. All of them use that term.

 

[AIAW]

Unfortunately not. 2 muscles torn off my left shoulder blade from auto accident.

That translates to cutting me open, scraping my left shoulder blade of scar tissue, drilling 10 holes through my shoulder blade, sewing muscles back on. Left arm in cast sticking out in front of my and legally cant drive for 6 weeks, then cant lift anything heavier than a coffee cup for 7-8 months, 12 month full recovery. I don't sleep from the pain. Best part, my insurance denied paying for surgery cause it's out if network and told me to go to an orthopedic surgeon in my area. Appealed 3x and was denied even though we told them the surgeons in my network told me to go to this guy in Kentucky.

Welcome to my world

DAMN. Sorry to hear that, along with the whole insurance bullshit. A quick recovery we hope you have. On the bright side, you won't be in pain after recovery, and if you bought a suppressor right before the surgery you'd get it about the same time you're all healed up also!

@1J04 went sort of through that same mess kinda. He might have a few helpful tips for you!

 

[padom]

Thanks. I've been in pain for so long I'm just ready to get it over with.

 

[Precision Underground]

That would be my 'other' guess... but if you are putting a video out that goes to this community... that's a big thing to miss in the editing booth.

Again, as my post-script said, they 'may' be referring to the jacket-swaging process. But it sounded like he was talking about the tip... Hard to say.

But I tend to think you are right. To some social media producer/video jockey, .003" sounded really impressive. And noone paid enough attention during management review.

Perhaps someone from Hornady lurks here and can clarify. Again, I am sure it's a great product. I love Hornady. Just seemed like a strange statement.

Cheers,

Sirhr

He said the “shape down to 2-3 thousandths”. I think he meant they went that deep when creating the shape. As in tweaking 2-3 thou in the shape of it.

 

[deersniper]

Don't the 50 cal AMAX's have alm. tips as well?

Yes

 

[cornhusker86]

Yes
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Sweeeettttt!!!

 

[Sniperwannabee]

Im scared to see what they will charge us down here in Australia for these. I guess I have a spare kidney

I thought you guys weren’t allowed to have guns

 

[707FreedomFan]

Yes
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I'm going to start splitting all my wood like that

 

[Yasherka]

innuendo?

That's an Italian suppository, right?

 

[PrecisionRifleGuy]

I thought you guys weren’t allowed to have guns

We are allowed guns mate. We just have to have licences and register everything. There are limitations on action types etc though. Also some states have idiotic appearance laws. Go figure

 

[1J04]

Unfortunately not. 2 muscles torn off my left shoulder blade from auto accident.

That translates to cutting me open, scraping my left shoulder blade of scar tissue, drilling 10 holes through my shoulder blade, sewing muscles back on. Left arm in cast sticking out in front of my and legally cant drive for 6 weeks, then cant lift anything heavier than a coffee cup for 7-8 months, 12 month full recovery. I don't sleep from the pain. Best part, my insurance denied paying for surgery cause it's out if network and told me to go to an orthopedic surgeon in my area. Appealed 3x and was denied even though we told them the surgeons in my network told me to go to this guy in Kentucky.

Welcome to my world

Good luck with all that @padom . That's gonna get old, fast. I'm sure you already know, but dammit push yourself within reason. If you're hurting yourself while trying to get better, don't. Discomfort is one thing, causing deep pain is another. Best to you and keep the mind busy, and whine, even if you don't hurt. It helps us all in the long run. In Cartman's best whiny voice, "Honey, can you........" I milked the hell outta that one.

 

[never_summer]

I'm having back surgery in Lexington May 22. Going down 2 days early. Might have to take a drive over to Buffalo Trace and grab some to numb the pain.

Drank a bottle of 20yr and 15yr pappy van winkle back when we didn’t know what was good. Might have even taken shots of it ?

 

[Tucker301]

Uh oh...

 

[softcock]

We are allowed guns mate. We just have to have licences and register everything. There are limitations on action types etc though. Also some states have idiotic appearance laws. Go figure

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Ya the markup on Price-$ for you is robbery . everything we take for granted here in shooting related items is half price what you have to pay .
I got a couple good buddies down there that all shoot rifle and pistol . Was told it is quite the bullshit for jumping threw the hoops but after that it just short waits for things . Auto-feed Bolt rifle are a no-go and all Sub-compact frame and barrel pistols are No-Go also . but they shoot about everything else after all the classes, permits and waiting .
.

 

[softcock]

There also stating there LONG with that Alum. tip .
Just how long are they ??? .
250 Grn..30 cal's. . ( out of a 300WM ) , To get really the Max. performance out of them . Will I have to stretch-out the Cartridge OAL. and Single-Feed ?
.

 

[Clearlight]

Unfortunately not. 2 muscles torn off my left shoulder blade from auto accident.

That translates to cutting me open, scraping my left shoulder blade of scar tissue, drilling 10 holes through my shoulder blade, sewing muscles back on. Left arm in cast sticking out in front of my and legally cant drive for 6 weeks, then cant lift anything heavier than a coffee cup for 7-8 months, 12 month full recovery. I don't sleep from the pain. Best part, my insurance denied paying for surgery cause it's out if network and told me to go to an orthopedic surgeon in my area. Appealed 3x and was denied even though we told them the surgeons in my network told me to go to this guy in Kentucky.

Welcome to my world

Best wishes Padom that is a big bag o dicks to chew on.... By way of cruel motivation , I challenge you
to beat your own score in the SH 100 yard challenge in 12 months time .

I’m in for a six pack , or will donate a bottle of some local shine which may be better for the pain .

Yeah heard the ‘ 3 thou ‘ reference and was like WTF ? The last batch of Hornady 225 ELDMs I got were
fkn egg shaped , no doubt these A tips will be a lot better .

 

[Prebanpaul]

I love when shooters bring up A tip bullets and drinkers bring up Pappy. No one is impressed. My Tikka shoots 1/3 moa. It ain't going to shoot better than that. Same for my SAC, TGR42, GAP. And Pappy, Please everyone knows that guy....... the look at me......... Wheller is where it's at.

 

[padom]

Best wishes Padom that is a big bag o dicks to chew on.... By way of cruel motivation , I challenge you
to beat your own score in the SH 100 yard challenge in 12 months time .

I’m in for a six pack , or will donate a bottle of some local shine which may be better for the pain .

Yeah heard the ‘ 3 thou ‘ reference and was like WTF ? The last batch of Hornady 225 ELDMs I got were
fkn egg shaped , no doubt these A tips will be a lot better .

Thanks bud. That's a deal. It's my opposite shoulder, so maybe I'll be able to start shooting from the bench after a month or two....

 

[Loonhunter]

So where were we?...........

 

[Loonhunter]

 

[j-huskey]

 

[Soulezoo]

After the 140 RDF's, I would be happy with .003". The RDF's varied as much as .022" base to tip.

 

[Soulezoo]

Anyway, Midway was taking orders. It was $373 (IIRC) for 500 of the 137gr. 6.5's.

 

[LeftyJason]

In

In machining, some machinists refer to ten thousandths (.0001) as "thousandths" rather than ten thousandths. Have a few buddies that work in tool and die. All of them use that term.

I and most of my coworkers refer to them as tenths. Aerospace engine grinding.

 

[Geno C.]

Uh oh...

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@1J04 did I start somthing...?

Their rye is going to get popular like blantons and I won’t be able to get it anymore either!!

 

[ormandj]

Back on topic, here are some specifications for you:

Hornady 6.5mm 135gr A-Tip

OAL: 1.380”
Bearing surface: 0.408”
Aluminum tip: 0.155”

Hornady 6.5mm 153gr A-Tip:

OAL: 1.500”
Bearing surface: 0.530”
Aluminum tip: 0.155”