What are the reasons that make you use of 1/x T/L alloys for your long range bullets ?
I always used 1/20: do not ask me why ... a kind of paradigm ?
I always got some flyers: I tried some 1/16 T/L bullets and things seemed to work better... I will have to shoot more to get some statistics.
What would it be to shoot 1/10 ... $$$
Then I read this:
There Is No “Magic Bullet” by Lee Shaver
I shoot a Shiloh Sharps 45-90 with OE 1 1 1/2 81 grains with some .050 inch "in" the rifles. I use a Paul Jones mold 45001.Many of the muzzle loading and breech loading match rifle shooters of the 1870s used harder bullets than we do today. At least one English shooter and experimenter of the era wrote how he really preferred a bullet that was hard enough it would only obturate full diameter for the rear 1/3 to 1/2 of its length, and he settled on a bullet of about 10-1 or 12-1 alloy. He was of the opinion that the harder lead would not transfer as much energy outward towards the surface of the barrel and therefore not create as much friction on the bore and believed that it gave him higher velocities. Considering the devices they used to find bullet velocities in those days I do not know if he was truly getting higher velocities that could not be explained by the fact that a harder bullet is lighter, and a lighter bullet accelerates quicker with the same amount of powder, but he certainly proved that it made his rifle shoot flatter to 1,000 yards.
Please, do not kill the messenger ...