Plastic Tip Lengths

[222Jim]

Anybody know what the plastic tip lengths are on Sierra BlitzKing, Nosler Varmaggedon and Hornady VMax .224 bullets? 40 to 55 grain weights.

I found some information online using ChatGPT, but it's obviously wrong, i.e. ChatGPT has the tip length at ~40% of the total length of the bullet

 

[RegionRat]

Some but not all, can be found on the JBM Ballistics website under the "lengths" library.

https://www.jbmballistics.com/ballistics/lengths/lengths.shtml

It is a pretty decent website and worth noodling around to learn what else they have for that matter. YMMV

 

[222Jim]

Some but not all, can be found on the JBM Ballistics website under the "lengths" library.

https://www.jbmballistics.com/ballistics/lengths/lengths.shtml

It is a pretty decent website and worth noodling around to learn what else they have for that matter. YMMV

Thanks. Lots of info there. Not much for the bullets I'm interested in, but still a lot of information.

 

[243winxb]

In general, the plastic tips on 224 bullets run from .117" to .142"

 

[ELR LVR]

I found some information online using ChatGPT, but it's obviously wrong, i.e. ChatGPT has the tip length at ~40% of the total length of the bullet

40% of 40%

 

[Damon555]

Anybody know what the plastic tip lengths are on Sierra BlitzKing, Nosler Varmaggedon and Hornady VMax .224 bullets? 40 to 55 grain weights.

I found some information online using ChatGPT, but it's obviously wrong, i.e. ChatGPT has the tip length at ~40% of the total length of the bullet

I'd say that's pretty close. You don't see the entire plastic tip. It has a small stem that protrudes further into the bullet.

 

[222Jim]

As the original post creator, I decided to try to see if I could figure out where ChatGPT got it's "tip lengths" from. So I followed the references it provided............ and "tip length" isn't listed on the references. But.......it turned out that ChatGPT reported the Sectional Densities for the bullets as their "Tip Length"