bullet technology-is it over

[dinger]

has this idea been discussed? whats left to do?

[Joshua M. Smith]

I believe we'll see a larger trend away from lead, and toward homogeneous bullets, both copper, and stuff that hasn't been explored yet.  This will also allow higher velocities from rifles without the bullet coming apart. 

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[Graybeard]

It seems everyone in the business is now making non lead bullets. I assume they are expecting what's happened in CA to spread to the rest of the country. Nosler is now even making varmint BT bullets with no lead instead they are using powdered iron as the core material.

Far from being over I think bullet technology is poised for many rapid changes in the next few years.

[skb2706]

Hardly over. Somewhere somebody thought the horseless carriage would be the final development in transportation. New materials, as mentioned and exotic designs using new materials will be coming.

[wncchester]

The premise reminds me that some time in the past, think it was supposed to have been in the late 1800s, when some one in congress suggested the gov. close the patent office.  He was sure that everything had been invented and the patent office was no longer needed.  (He may have been a Republican, Democrat polliticians don't care if a gov. program is useless!)