When I bought my Smith and Wesson 45 shield, the LGS gave me a free box of PDX1's due to a promotion they had going.
I noticed reading the back of the box that it stated six segments. However these bullets have 8 segments.
This was confirmed upon testing in a block of clear ballistics gel.
Any idea of the update on these? I shot some years back and they indeed have six petals.
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I know this is a bit of a Necro thread, but...
This may be an updated version of the bullet. I have seen some other JHP bullet designs go to 8 petals in 45 acp while smaller calibers have been 6.
If you happen to still have that box, I could check the UPC number against what we currently carry at work.
Looks like an 8 leaf Ranger T to me.
I remember when I was confused why Speer made a 5 & 6 pedal Gold Dot for the 357 SIG.
Quote from: Overkill338 on July 15 2017 09:14:49 AM MDT
Looks like an 8 leaf Ranger T to me.
I remember when I was confused why Speer made a 5 & 6 pedal Gold Dot for the 357 SIG.
ranger T are not bonded like in his expansion pic--- there is a ranger bonded series but they all used to have 6 pedals, and his has 8 --- must be the new design??
Quote from: Texashogman on July 15 2017 09:31:20 AM MDT
ranger T are not bonded like in his expansion pic--- there is a ranger bonded series but they all used to have 6 pedals, and his has 8 --- must be the new design??
Seconding the "new design" opinion. All of my 45acp inventory of 230gr Ranger T & 230gr PDX1 rounds are the 6 petal variety.
Quote from: Texashogman on July 15 2017 09:31:20 AM MDT
Quote from: Overkill338 on July 15 2017 09:14:49 AM MDT
Looks like an 8 leaf Ranger T to me.
I remember when I was confused why Speer made a 5 & 6 pedal Gold Dot for the 357 SIG.
ranger T are not bonded like in his expansion pic--- there is a ranger bonded series but they all used to have 6 pedals, and his has 8 --- must be the new design??
I didn't mean literally identical, they just reassemble an expanded Ranger T or Black Talon.