I know Speedy. However, he was asking how to get them into competition. That would be how I would try doing it as well as showing up at some matches, shooting the bullets and handing some out to some of the competitors.I would love to see how Dr John would talk to Speedy or Omar, both of whom build rifles I shoot often (both rifles fired TODAY at 600 yards in Midland, MI). I defy Dr. John to try to hold a 10 minute conversation with Speedy without him laughing and hanging up. Seriously, Speedy doesn’t have time to waste. And as soon as he is talked to by someone that starts telling him how to do his life’s work, that conversation is over.
Dave
Seems about right Bart. His social skills are lacking and several people have offered to shoot his bullets and few like myself actually purchased a small qty just because I love testing new things and I’m not confident he has a full understanding of the expectations of his target audience. If he made a 6mm bullet in the 103-110gr range I’d love to shoot them in my dasher, up against my bullet of choice, your 105gr Gungnirs.Guys, several years back (you can check the archives), I told this gentleman to make some 6MM, and I would test them. Never heard from him. His post back then went about like this one.
Bart
Great research pull.
But it’ll have less drop!Seems about right Bart. His social skills are lacking and several people have offered to shoot his bullets and few like myself actually purchased a small qty just because I love testing new things and I’m not confident he has a full understanding of the expectations of his target audience. If he made a 6mm bullet in the 103-110gr range I’d love to shoot them in my dasher, up against my bullet of choice, your 105gr Gungnirs.
Dave
Where is the 1k like icon for this post.You sir, are going to get pissed off when you get pissed on! Customers are valued not expected!
DJ
How much discretionary income do you spend with people you don't like, or with people that insult you ?I'm sorry that my "claimed" degrees hurt your delicate sensibilities. Maybe you should start a petition to get me kicked off the forum for discussing my research into external ballistics? OR maybe you should stop being an ignorant simpleton and kindly ignore my posts if they hurt your feelings?
It has been my life's work to develop aerospike bullet theory and I have reached a point where I need others to begin shooting them to find any issues that I have missed. If you want to be a part of this then feel free to join in. If not then kindly piss off.
With the newer aerospike bullet design.....I'd cut a rebate on it and it
would have a resemblance to Lapua's D46 !!
Guys, several years back (you can check the archives), I told this gentleman to make some 6MM, and I would test them. Never heard from him. His post back then went about like this one.
Bart
If you’d like some to test, just PM Hellfire, and then you can end up buying them just like I did. lolI could never get to a 95% confidence level in the results. It took be a while to learn how to cut the bullets myself so that I could iterate the design space to find a bullet that was both stable and showed the aerospike performance "bump". It has been a long road.
I have 30 caliber and 6.5mm if you would like some to test. Just PM me.
I agree.If you’d like some to test, just PM Hellfire, and then you can end up buying them just like I did. lol
Dave
No you didn'tIf you’d like some to test, just PM Hellfire, and then you can end up buying them just like I did. lol
Dave
I doubt if he will be able to talk them into shooting accurately. But yes he is trying.I agree.
I made him an offer and nothing but crickets.
Leads me to believe he doesn't truly care about testing these "miracle" bullets but instead just like to talk about them.
And still crickets.....![]()
Just to give you a heads up on what you need to compete with -So I was thinking about getting into a competition to prove that the aerospike bullets could be better. The question is which competition. Of course I want to pick the one that the aerospikes will do the very best. So here is what they have to offer:
They fly like regular bullets out of the muzzle but when the bullet slows to a certain speed (based upon the aerospike design) the drag dramatically drops. This means that the time of flight should be less for longer ranges and thus less wind error. They are also solid copper if there are competitions for that.
I know it is not valued around this forum, but I have 20 years of ballistics experience and can write custom ballistics apps for my phone. Although I have never shot in long range competitions I have shot a hell of a lot. Maybe 10K shots a year? This is my business after all.
I'm bootstrapping this whole process so a $10K entrance is not doable. Maybe an off the shelf gun competition to remove the expensive custom mods?
What would y'all recommend?