Unfortunately, to test if the A-TIP method is superior, I’d need a wide variance in manufacture number, like number 1 and number 500,000, and those numbers simply aren’t available from Hornady yet. Most shooters do what I do buy a large amount of a specific lot of bullets and then weigh each round to set aside the outliers. It’s typically not much, but that’s why precision shooters pick and note specific lots. That’s because traditional lots are usually large, and there may be some variation in machining within the lots, depending on how each company manages their production. Hornady A-TIP 6mm in cartons (image courtesy JWT for ) That should produce a product even more consistent than what is possible with traditional lots. You get numbers 1-100 packaged as they were produced in that order. So you don’t get bullet number 1 of the lot and bullet number 1,383 of the lot along with 98 others from somewhere in the middle of the lot. But wait, there’s more.Įach bullet is dropped in series, and each box is labeled with that number. (image courtesy JWT for )įor instance, instead of the rounds ending up in a bin and then in a box, each bullet is placed individually, by machine, in a plastic carrier. In this case, that also means as little human interaction as possible. The overall goal, as always, is consistency. The published numbers, as least for the rounds I’ve shot, also appear to be accurate.īeyond just the materials and construction, the manufacturing process itself is a bit different for the A-TIP. The A-TIP’s ballistic coefficients and sectional densities of each of their listed calibers are extremely impressive. The overall profile is obviously different from other bullets, even other Very Low Drag profile projectiles. It’s also not possible to have the same shape and corresponding sectional density with a solid bullet or traditional wrapped jacket with the lighter weight material up front. Hornady’s use of aluminum for the tip means that the are able to machine a lightweight, but long point into the bullet that is simply not possible in a polymer tipped bullet. But precision aluminum tipped bullets in the “modern” era are. Top to bottom: Berger Hybrid VLD, Hornady ELD Match, Hornady A-TIP Match (image courtesy JWT for )Īluminum tipped bullets aren’t really anything new. Hornady has chosen a different path with their A-TIP Match bullet line, instead placing a machined aluminum tip atop their Advanced Manufacturing Process (AMP) jacketed bullets.
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