Wicked Hunter wrote:I would try them but i feel i'd be wasting money. I'm shooting a Trident Upper with a 16twist barrel and i'm quikly noticing the heavier the bullet the better the groups. That's the main reason i'm playing with the solid copper bullets. I can shoot a lighter bullet but still have it stabilize since the solid coppers are longer than lead bullets of the same weight. I haven't ruled any of the light bullets out yet, i'm just on a 250-300 grain kick at the moment.
This affords an excellent opportunity to bring up the problem of sharing data across different platforms. Not that the difference is as significant as trying to share the load info from a bolt action to an autoloader, but the different twist rates between factory and Trident barrels will contribute some differences in behavior. We can all relate to the longer bullets stability issue, but some folks do not realize that the harder a barrel tries (and succeeds) in spinning a bullet faster, the greater the resistance to the bullet traveling down the barrel. In a faster twist barrel, to maintain the same velocity as a slower twist, you will need to apply more pressure or reduce the velocity to keep the pressure the same.
So, those of you sporting the Trident barrels will have an opportunity to contribute a second set of data points to the existing ones already developed for the factory barrels running a slower twist. Once we begin to build up a second database, it should be interesting, comparing the differences and similarities between the two.
Some day, we will hopefully have a process in place that will facilitate contributing to a central load repository for all the well documented work that has been done already and spread across hell and a half acre in this forum. A place where new members can view what has been documented and either benefit from that work or avoid duplicating the effort at a cost of time and money.
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