Thread: Stop The Presses! Hornady Discovers Meplat Trimming (DRVT)

After watching Hornadys video on DRVT and feeling like I got stuck in the marketing teams latrine, I went to the patent.

Turns out if the meplat is too small it's hard to manufacture consistently. And if the meplat is too large the BC suffers. Who would have thought? Maybe I missed the point.

Anyway, for tipped bullets .20-0.51" diameter the ideal meplat ratio is 0.07:1-0.18:1 according to Hornady. Checkout FIG .4 and FiG .5 in the patent.