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One of the goals in developing the ELD-X bullet was that it featured a plastic tip. One of the more puzzling items discovered with Doppler radar was the changing (or decreasing) BC at longer distances.
As the sustained heat associated with shooting long, heavy-for-caliber bullets, with high BC and low drag, muzzle velocities around 3,000 fps and fired at long-range were actually causing the tip of the bullet to melt. This is known as aerodynamic heating. Hornady ballisticians had to reengineer a new long-range bullet that would become known as the ELD-X.
However, bullets must be used within the velocity window that a particular bullet was designed to operate. For example, the muzzle velocity of many large-capacity magnum cartridges has the ability to push long, heavy-for-caliber bullets to velocities higher than the ELD-X was intended, which will cause stabilization issues and poor accuracy.
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As the sustained heat associated with shooting long, heavy-for-caliber bullets, with high BC and low drag, muzzle velocities around 3,000 fps and fired at long-range were actually causing the tip of the bullet to melt. This is known as aerodynamic heating. Hornady ballisticians had to reengineer a new long-range bullet that would become known as the ELD-X.
However, bullets must be used within the velocity window that a particular bullet was designed to operate. For example, the muzzle velocity of many large-capacity magnum cartridges has the ability to push long, heavy-for-caliber bullets to velocities higher than the ELD-X was intended, which will cause stabilization issues and poor accuracy.
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