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#10MinuteTalk | Bullet Base Types

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Sports, Vortex Optics, Shooting, Scope, Gun, Long Range, Wilderness, Hunting, Riflescope, Vortex, Vortex Nation Podcast, Binoculars, Vortex Nation, Optics, Rifle

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The base of a bullet and its design dictate a good portion of how it behaves down range. Tune in as the guys talk through the most common types, what they offer, and where they shine.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What is up, everybody?

0:04.1

Mark on the mic, my good friend, Ryan Muck and Hearn, across from me.

0:08.4

Ryan, like people, bullets come in all shapes and sizes.

0:14.2

And on this podcast today, we're going to talk about those shapes and sizes,

0:19.3

but we're going to do it maintaining bullet positivity because there's a

0:22.8

place for all of them. He tells me, he's like, I got a killer intro. Because he won't ever

0:27.9

let me do an intro. Not one, not one intro ever. All right, Mark, let's talk about bullet positivity.

0:33.4

We did a lead balloon the other day, okay? Thanks, number six of 52. Oh, whatever. We've done the bazillion of them. I'll go through the list. You're misremembering. Okay, yeah, I have a tendency to do that, don't I? Oh, very forgetful. Got a couple examples on the table. Would you say, Ryan, there's probably about three primary? Well, yeah, primaries.

0:56.0

Commonly found things.

0:57.8

Subcategories?

0:58.6

Subcategories are vast.

1:00.5

There are many bullet shapes and many bullet sizes.

1:03.8

And then specifically today, I think what we're going to get into is heel styles or butts, if you will.

1:14.7

Yeah.

1:15.8

You know, just for fun, I'm going to get, I'm going to get this very cartoon bullet on the table here.

1:21.4

This is actually dug out of an analog bear skull.

1:26.3

Oh, sure.

1:27.0

Yeah, why not?

1:28.0

It's a 9mm.

1:28.8

It's a hard cast from Buffalo Boar.

1:30.9

Definitely, that's a fired bullet.

1:33.2

It is, yeah.

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