Interesting Bullet Concept

[jandbn]

Not a boolit, but is an interesting concept as a compensator to reduce recoil. They are called Comp Bullets and the website is here: http://www.compbullet.com/prodottieng.html. I would imagine they are expensive and I wonder how a rotating bullet would handle releasing pressure while the ports are external of the barrel and the bullet base is still engaged in the rifling?

[stubshaft]

IIRC - There was a discussion about this boolit a couple of months ago.

[jdgabbard]

Waste of money if you ask me. We have guys with cast lead nailing rams at 1000m on this board.

[uscra112]

Somehow that looks like a solution looking for a problem. Nice application of a CNC screw machine, however.

[ku4hx]

Snakeoil

[GP100man]

Conversation peice !!!

Or a look what I have !!!

[Breadman03]

That appears to be a tacticool method of extracting money from the pockets of mall ninjas, and not much more.

[Freightman]

That appears to be a tacticool method of extracting money from the pockets of mall ninjas, and not much more.

YEP! and lots of it!

[41 mag fan]

First it was whiffle balls....now whiffle bullets

[Texantothecore]

Not supported by any physics that I can see. Just a slower bullet that will have less recoil.

[captaint]

Whiffle bullets - now that's funny !!! I can assure you I won't be paying for any. Wonder what that mold would look like ?? enjoy Mike

[rexherring]

How about making them whistle as they fly? Looks like they could.

[Blammer]

jan, it's got a hollow base that leads to the extra holes in the sides.

I'd bet that the pressure may split it in half leaving the "donut" base in teh barrel while the nose flies out then you have a problem.

[jandbn]

IIRC - There was a discussion about this boolit a couple of months ago.

I tried to Search before posting to see if it had been talked about, but didn't find anything with "compbullet". When I searched for "comp bullet", I think I crashed the server; too many hits for bullet.

I like the whiffle and whistle!

[Bwana]

I'll say it is intriguing. Most likely not practical and for sure not economical. It is an interesting concept that, like porting, appears to function best when used with high pressure and large gas loads. Such as used in race guns. I say this from looking at the pictures of the muzzle flashes. Many things come and most are not used for one reason or the other.
When I Googled it the first item linked to a website and the little blurb about the round stated that "some guns had fluted chambers to help lubricate the gun." I'm sorry; but, it is a little hard to take anything that whoever wrote that said with such a lack of knowledge on chamber fluting. Good for a chuckle though

[thehouseproduct]

The strange design I have seen that intrest me is tubular bullets.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstrac...D1405B8385F0D3

[Bwana]

The strange design I have seen that intrest me is tubular bullets.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstrac...D1405B8385F0D3

An article I read not too long ago showed that they are not as areodynamic as regular long range projectiles in rifles. Also, in case you didn't know, the tubular handgun rounds that were made by PMC labeled UltraMax are banned from production or commercial sale.

[SquirrelHollow]

I doubt they'll be imported. The company is Italian, and...

The solid brass construction gets those projectiles classifed as "Armor Piercing" by the ATF. And, since most of them are designed for handguns, getting a 'sporting purposes' exemption would probably be pretty difficult.

[BAGTIC]

I still have a box of the PMC bullets somewhere.

I know bronze handgun bullets were banned but I thought brass was one of the approved metals.

[Bambeno]

Looks like a good way to sell more barrels. Imagine increased barrel erosion caused by the hot jets of propellent gases coming throu the bullet ports.