It will be interesting to see the gel tests on all of these Oath rounds.
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Here with these too, I would pull these to see what's being use, 1200 with a 135 grain is pushing it... :o
Seeing the ring on the bullet nose suggest they may be compressing the powder charge or have seated and crimped in the same step possibly... ???
Yes, it looks kind of hot.
Did you know these are machined bullets? Maybe the site picture will show how they are made.
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After looking over their website, I see these are 100% copper projectiles and they will be lighter than the lead counterpart so they will be long for weight like Barnes and others. They also appear to have power bands where the entire projectile is not contacting the rifling, this will reduce frictional surface contact which can translate to speed increases, however accuracy might suffer...
Also the line on the HALO is there by design and not a crush line marking from the seater plug during seating as I first thought.
Springfield XD 4" 1109, 1148, 1112. Average = 1123 FPS/ 378 LBS
EAA Elite Limited 4.75" 1115, 1130, 1113. Average = 1119.33 FPS/ 376 LBS