What ? aaaaa ... say what ?
I believe you said the bullets require a barrel twist that isn't normally used. Is everyone supposed to spend $700 for a new barrel to test bullets? You should do the testing. 10,000 shots a year really?
Nope, I'm using standard twist rates. It is just really hard to stabilize for the older calibers like 243, 308, and 30-06 with the slower twist rates. That is why I'm focused on the new ones like the 6.5 Creedmoor, 300 blackout, and 300 PRC.
Don't I know it! Ballistics is odd in that it is the only field of research where there is a giant gap between the people doing the research and the users of that research. That gap leads to distrust and misunderstanding. If I use big words I'm talking down to the shooter. If I simplify it I'm an idiot for not knowing the correct terminology. Did you know there is only about 10 PhD level external ballistics researchers in the country? The anti-academic shooters are one of the reasons for that. I can't find PhD students who stay in the field when I take them to the range and they get chewed out by paw-paw for not knowing the number of clicks to zero at 100 yards while trying to solve a non-linear partial differential equation to estimate bullet stability.
Statements like this are not going to help you.
Sorry. I have not been treated kindly by this forum overall. I tend to get bitter when insulted over and over again. My favorite was when I was called a transgender Biden supporter and had my education compared to Jill Biden.
Yeah. I was thinking the same. Took their course - about 5000 years ago.
I've been an academic/clinical researcher in a former life. When evaluating clinical devices in animal and human models the company that manufactures/distributes the product would provide the implantable device being tested gratis. I suggest you do the same with your product. If a company expected us to purchase a new device and perform clinical studies that may help market their product, I would tell them to pound sand. Of course, many times our results were contrary to the desired results of the product developer. Perhaps you should consider providing the same to those who would be testing your bullets while consuming expensive and hard to acquire components. To have testers buy your bullets and provide to you test results that you can use to potentially market your for profit product is unreasonable.
This is a forum where results matter.
What cartridge is in your plan ??
Good for you, Mr. HH. Tyler will give them a fair evaluation.
A very much needed post. But he will ignore it I'm sure.
You would think if it was your life’s work to develop the Aerospike bullet, that you would have at least a shred of actual real fire evidence….targets at various distances, etc. People on this site are literally bending over backwards to test your product for you, but instead of taking them up on the offer, you have chosen to claim you have all the testers you can handle at this point. WHO ARE THE TESTERS YOU HAVE LINED UP TO TEST YOUR BULLETS? Have you discussed a suitable test plan/process with any of them?? By your own admission, your social skills are severely lacking, but the true problem here is your are proposing to start a new business and your business acumen is even more lacking than your social skills. On one hand you are saying you have all the testers you need and can handle, then above you ask the poster if they want to be a part of the testing. Unless you can name the people you have lined up to test your bullets, I’m going to assume you don’t have any. Somehow your credentials are legit and I even reached out to your email through the university to see if it was indeed you posting on this site (because I had my doubts that someone trying to sell a new bullet could have such little knowledge of the industry he was trying to enter), and I verified it was you. This whole experience has likely turned off the vast majority of shooters on this site that you might find it difficult to even give your bullets away, which ironically I what several shooters told you was required from day 1. Do you even understand how difficult it would be to properly tune a load at 100 yards for your bullets with only have 20 bullets??? Let alone to tune is at 600 or 1000 yards???
Very professional response Dr. John, super classy and very much indicative of someone who is on the verge of completely failing to establish rapport with his/her target customers in a very small niche industry. Good luck with your endeavors Dr. John, because you will certainly need it.
Precisely Darrell. My dad taught me from a very young age that if YOU don’t take care of your customers, someone else WILL.
