Aerospike Bullets?

[ebb]

Several here tested or were going to test the Aerospike bullets. I've not heard the results, and was interested if anyone had completed testing and would share? I didn't care much for the way he was treated, but realized he brought much of it on himself.

 

[quest450]

helpful and nice

 

[dellet]

I bought some to test, very disappointed in the quality. That was pretty well documented here.

Aerospike 300 BLK 146 Lulu adventure begins

As the title says, these are my first thoughts. Any one who has done any product testing, knows better than to believe any manufacturer that you haven’t previously developed a relationship with. or to get too hung up on yourself and your own way of thinking. Thinking this will never work, or be...

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Life more or less got in the way and since I had purchased the bullets don’t feel an obligation to any one else’s timeline.

Every time I start to load these things it seems like a new problem arises. The last was trying to seat them. There is a 90* sharp edge where the boat tail transistions to the bearing surface. So basically you load them like a cast bullet, flair the neck, seat the bullet, light crimp to remove the bell. Problem is that edge is not consistent. Took a little bit to work out a seating system that worked.

Biggest issue was that once I got things worked out where I could give them a fair shake I went back to order some more. No can do. Can’t order any more bullets and the site has been scrubbed of most of the information and no way to order the bullets. This was back in September or so.

Here’s the order page.

https://www.aerospikebullets.com/order

At this point I’m not sure it’s worth the burnt powder and primers to work up loads. The little testing I’ve done shows mediocre accuracy, more or less MOA at 100 yards. So without the ability to get more bullets that’s what it will be to test the proclaimed less drop over distance with an unexplainable and unmeasurable higher bc so to a magic spike that flattened out and almost disappeared in loads approaching 60,000 psi.

 

[ISS]

Some things are just NOT meant to be...

 

[Kracken McGraw]

Biggest issue was that once I got things worked out where I could give them a fair shake I went back to order some more. No can do. Can’t order any more bullets and the site has been scrubbed of most of the information and no way to order the bullets. This was back in September or so.

Good Riddance!

 

[Big_Daddy]

....Biggest issue was that once I got things worked out where I could give them a fair shake I went back to order some more. No can do. Can’t order any more bullets and the site has been scrubbed of most of the information and no way to order the bullets. This was back in September or so.

Imagine that.....

 

[Dave M.]

I was planning to work up a load with the limited bullets I have but after seeing and confirming that the site I ordered them from is no longer active, there is zero purpose in doing so. Waste of powder and range time for bullets I can even boy more of if they shot great. Chances are he was forced to take the site down because of a naming or trademark infringement. No way he’d take it down himself, he was extremely proud of his creation and not shy about telling you he was smarter than you are. The cost to maintain a website address is chump change for a big time professor like he is.
What happened to his big ballistics class he was teaching??
Dave

 

[Dave M.]

jstutz@aerospikebullets.com
(850) 876-1058

 

[Dave M.]

HappyHellfire come back, we miss you.

 

[Dave M.]

I remember when he said he wouldn’t sell me any bullets if I was the last guy on earth……..looks like he won’t be selling anyone any bullets any time soon according to his now defunct order site.
Dave

 

[Fast14riot]

I just envision Happy and Guffy crossing paths at the range and a lifelong friendship consisting of thoughtful encouragement and each learning from the other to both become the two best shooters who ever did.

 

[ebb]

^^^^^ they would either be best friends or hate each other. If the credentials he posted were real, I don't see how he could be so out of touch with reality. Testing a long rage bullet with a 300BLK makes no sense, and with a 308Win makes very little.

 

[Fuj]

Did;nt that guy say he bought a CNC lathe to make em' ?? Can't
imagine making payments on that rig with no product going out
the door......I don't think he had any basic machining skills to start
with. Sure did'nt look like he knew how to grind a cutter or let alone
knowledge of speeds and feeds. I may be wrong, but pics did'nt lie.

 

[WSnyder]

Did;nt that guy say he bought a CNC lathe to make em' ?? Can't
imagine making payments on that rig with no product going out
the door......

He bought an older used machine. Doubt he has any payments on it.

 

[Thauglor]

I am glad he is gone, it was good to see quite a few people dismiss his claims but also amazed to see how many people believed him with no proof, no published materials and only his own unverified data

 

[jelenko]

^^^^^ they would either be best friends or hate each other. If the credentials he posted were real, I don't see how he could be so out of touch with reality. Testing a long rage bullet with a 300BLK makes no sense, and with a 308Win makes very little.

As someone focused in academics, I could see how he wouldn't know much about real world things.
But, as a researching in aerodynamics, it didn't seem to fit that he wasn't more concerned that his test projectiles be consistent and without flaws.

 

[dellet]

Did;nt that guy say he bought a CNC lathe to make em' ?? Can't
imagine making payments on that rig with no product going out
the door......I don't think he had any basic machining skills to start
with. Sure did'nt look like he knew how to grind a cutter or let alone
knowledge of speeds and feeds. I may be wrong, but pics did'nt lie.

He bought an older used machine. Doubt he has any payments on it.

I believe that most of the financing for the project is through grants. He had said that he needed university approval to spend grant money to purchase a universal receiver, and the university was skeptical about financing anything firearm related.

Maybe the next sunny Saturday that’s got more than a single digit on the thermometer (no negatives either) ill at least get some rounds down range.

 

[Fast14riot]

^^^^^ they would either be best friends or hate each other. If the credentials he posted were real, I don't see how he could be so out of touch with reality. Testing a long rage bullet with a 300BLK makes no sense, and with a 308Win makes very little.

Thinker vs Do-er

I've worked with many thinkers, they can be very out of touch.

 

[ebb]

Thinkers everything works just perfect in their mind, the real world is much different. That may be part of the issue, running a CNC machine takes skills, something an aerodynamics thinker may not have. He mentioned time for the complete operation of making one bullet, never work speed or tool shape or coolant.

 

[Fast14riot]

Thinkers everything works just perfect in their mind, the real world is much different. That may be part of the issue, running a CNC machine takes skills, something an aerodynamics thinker may not have. He mentioned time for the complete operation of making one bullet, never work speed or tool shape or coolant.

When I worked in an office designing things that prevent missiles from going boom at the wrong time, I had a framed printout that said

In theory, practice and theory are the same.
In practice, they are not.