.45 auto Ammo Question
Anybody recall the Air Force tests (early 1980's?) on .45 and 9mm where they experimented with a flat point bullet? Was wondering if this was a truncated cone or RN w/flat type bullet.
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The USAF was in cahoots with Hornady who developed the bullets.
The original, and the one still in commercial production by Hornady is a truncated cone with the edges of the flat point slightly radiused for easier feeding.
http://www.midwayusa.com/viewProduct/?productNumber=1165217806
Later they went to a "RNFP" round nose flat point for better feeding in the submachine guns then still widely used in European NATO. I do not have a picture of that one and don't think it is on the commercial market. Then they gave up and just went roundnose for issue because that was what everybody was used to and their guns set up for.
I do not know if the .45 version was ever in true military testing; we were very committed to the 9mm at the time. I think it just a commercial venture of the same style as the 9mm. Jeff Cooper, Chuck Taylor, and some of their colleagues liked it. They said it actually penetrated more than a roundnose because its shape was more stable in a "resistant medium." See at:
http://www.midwayusa.com/viewProduct/?productNumber=11651564460 -
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The Nosler 230 grain bullet sold for reloading is the truncated cone type. really shoots great groups [^][:)]but not legal for CMP matches[:(] they have to be 230 grain roundnose "BALL" bullets 0
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