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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Cheap tungsten bullets for everyone?


2 posted on 02/14/2013 8:45:19 PM PST by wastedyears (I'm a gamer not because I choose to have no life, but because I choose to have many.)
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To: wastedyears

Maybe cores, straight up, the barrel wear would be frightful.


9 posted on 02/14/2013 9:06:17 PM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: wastedyears

Yikes. Rare or not, tungsten is really hard. It would tear up the barrel in short order. Maybe as a jacketed slug, as is already being done (and the benefit there would be the lower cost), since it is close to lead in weight.

Also, just because tungsten and titanium and other similar metals are about to get cheaper, doesn’t mean they’re not still insanely expensive to work with. Both metals require complex tools to work, and very high temperatures for forging.


20 posted on 02/14/2013 10:06:22 PM PST by Little Pig (Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici.)
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