Nosler Accubond broken tips in the box

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Hi,
I opened up a box of Nosler 30cal 180 Accubond, and found two bullets that had their tips broken off.
These 2 bullets are useless for me, bad BC and too rapid expension at 300WSM speed IMHO.

Any of you had this happen? At the price of those Accubond, it pisses me off.

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I found the same thing in a box of .323 NAB's. Also in a box of Winchester factory rolled Accubond ammo. Out of many many boxes of them I have only seen it once myself.
 
I had a couple Ballistic Tip bullets deformed in a box that I bought a few years ago. I sent them a respectful email telling them what happened and they sent me a new box for free. I'm sure they will look after you.
 
I'm surprised there isn't more damaged items (bullets included).

They were no doubt "fine" when the machine put them together - they were probably then, dropped into the box and the packaging was finished by a machine. Then all packed up and loaded on a truck. Unloaded and put on a train heading north, unloaded onto a truck again and off to the importers warehouse. Then unloaded into the warehouse - kicked around for a bit until they were ordered by a retailer and then loaded into another truck (and in smaller orders it's usually couriers) who "milk run it" across the country, loading, unloading, scanning and transferring until it finally got to the shelf where you bought it.

Heck, the "warehouse guy" or the person putting it on the shelf might have even dropped the box a couple of times before it made it on the shelf for you to pick up.

Given that, it's amazing ONLY 2 were broken :)
 
I know, but is it worst than going from 0 to 3000 fps in 23 inches?
How do these tips behave when we pull the trigger if they break up in the box?
 
That's why Hornady has come up with some new composite for their new (for 2016) ELD line.

There is a theory being tossed around that the tips are "melting" during flight due to speed/wind resistance etc, so they came up with a new and improved material for the tips (at least that's the reasoning from some of the discussions I have read)...

This is from Hornady...

"All manufacturers conventional polymer tips in high BC bullets melt in flight.Hornady® engineers discovered that conventional bullet tip materials in streamlined, high BC bullets melt and deform. Although not a significant issue affecting moderate BC conventional tipped varmint and hunting bullets, aerodynamic heating causes BC reduction and degradation of accuracy, particularly at extended ranges (400 yds +). To counter this effect, Hornady® identified a heat resistant polymer and developed the patent pending Heat Shield™ tip. This revolutionary new tip creates the perfect meplat (tip) with exceptionally consistent results from bullet-to-bullet and lot-to-lot."
 
I've seen it with 200 grain 30 caliber Accubonds. I can only remember one tip that I found the tip in the box, and one that I know for sure broke off while chambering. I couldn't chamber one particular cartridge and after trying a few times tipped it up and found the tip in the magazine. I've still got 3 that I seated and never shot. Since there were more de-tipped bullets than stray tips that's showing that many were wrecked before they were boxed up.

One thing that is probably relevant is that mine were old enough to still be in the old style box and so are yours. I've heard of other cases but nothing for many years except for mine and now yours. I'm wondering if it's a long since fixed problem?
 
galamb said:
That's why Hornady has come up with some new composite for their new (for 2016) ELD line.

There is a theory being tossed around that the tips are "melting" during flight due to speed/wind resistance etc, so they came up with a new and improved material for the tips (at least that's the reasoning from some of the discussions I have read)...

This is from Hornady...

"All manufacturers conventional polymer tips in high BC bullets melt in flight.Hornady® engineers discovered that conventional bullet tip materials in streamlined, high BC bullets melt and deform. Although not a significant issue affecting moderate BC conventional tipped varmint and hunting bullets, aerodynamic heating causes BC reduction and degradation of accuracy, particularly at extended ranges (400 yds +). To counter this effect, Hornady® identified a heat resistant polymer and developed the patent pending Heat Shield™ tip. This revolutionary new tip creates the perfect meplat (tip) with exceptionally consistent results from bullet-to-bullet and lot-to-lot."
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Typical marketing crap. Creating a solution to a problem that didn't exist.
 
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