Hii CZ,
I’m with you on the retained weight. For shooting both four legged as well as two legged targets I prefer to see better weight retention. The Hornady loads show a best RW of 72.5% in bare gelatin, and it drops from there.
A bonded or monolithic bullet would do much better. I can’t wait to see a load from Barnes, or at least from anyone with a Barnes TTSX on top of it.
I’d like to see the -X bullet tested in the FBI protocol tests and see how it does.
In fairness, though, even with 72.5% RW there is still more mass pushing through than most 5.56 rounds would have with 100% RW, and at a greater diameter.
I’m with you on the retained weight. For shooting both four legged as well as two legged targets I prefer to see better weight retention. The Hornady loads show a best RW of 72.5% in bare gelatin, and it drops from there.
A bonded or monolithic bullet would do much better. I can’t wait to see a load from Barnes, or at least from anyone with a Barnes TTSX on top of it.
I’d like to see the -X bullet tested in the FBI protocol tests and see how it does.
In fairness, though, even with 72.5% RW there is still more mass pushing through than most 5.56 rounds would have with 100% RW, and at a greater diameter.