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#10MinuteTalk - Hammer Bullets β€” Do They Hammer?

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

4.9 β€’ 1.5K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 1 July 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Hammer Bullets are a proverbial new kid on the bullet block. But are they built to knock the blocks off big game? Lathe turned with incredible precision, they are uniquely engineered to expand rapidly, shed pedals, and have the shank continue through the animal. Their design subscribes to a terminal-performance philosophy departing from the monolithic projectile norm. Are they the perfect balance? Mark Boardman and Ryan Muckenhirn join up to try and sort that out.

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0:00.0

What is up, everybody? Mark on the mic, my good friend, Ryan Muckin-Hern, across from me,

0:07.1

and in front of me, my trustee printouts. Ryan, the other day, we were in your car, and you were

0:12.1

playing one of your favorite songs. The chorus was, stop, hammer time. And it made me think,

0:19.1

we talk a lot about bullets on the podcast. One, we haven't

0:22.4

talked about, hammer bullets, which fall within the genre of a copper bullet, something that I know

0:29.2

you're a fan of. But these things are a little different. Yeah. They operate, I guess, what I would

0:35.7

consider for a all-copper or homogenous projectile.

0:42.0

Whoa.

0:44.8

Hey, if that term was confusing, let me know.

0:48.1

Somewhat unconventionally.

0:49.6

Yeah.

0:50.8

Let's talk about these things.

0:52.0

Actually, I'm going to read.

0:52.7

This is from the website.

0:53.8

So we're going to give a little background.

0:56.1

I printed off the website again.

0:58.3

Hammer bullets are custom turned on a CNC lathe using only the highest quality solid copper.

1:05.5

So they are a copper projectile.

1:08.5

They're not like a gilding metal.

1:13.1

And they're not necessarily designed to stay together like we're used to. Correct. With, I'd say, a quotation mark, traditional copper

1:19.4

bullet. Correct. They impact. They open up. And I'd say instead of, so expansion instead of the pedals you know curling back and

1:32.5

staying staying I guess intact with the bullet they shear off yes creating multiple wound channels

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