Modern Design
The possibility to machine mono-metal bullets offers bullet designers the freedom to design slender aerodynamically efficient bullet shapes that can not be produced with more traditional bullet production methods.
Mono-metal very-low-drag bullets are normally machined from solid bars of highly-machinable metals using CNC lathes. Common materials include UNS C36000 Free-Cutting Brass, lead-free brass, oxygen-free copper and other highly machinable alloys of copper, nickel, and tellurium.
Producing accurate bullets this way is not easy. To guarantee consistency and hence accuracy professional quality control during and after production is needed. Mono-metal solid bullets are more expensive than traditional jacketed Hollow Point Boat Tail very-low-drag bullets.
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