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04-01-2009, 09:52 PM
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To golf or to shoot.
At the U.S. Army’s Aberdeen Proving Ground, a team of ballistics technicians, supported by some of the U.S. Army’s top sniper instructors, has been quietly developing a radical new “dimpled” bullet. The exterior of the bullet resembles the dimpled surface of a golf ball. The function of the special dimpled skin is to reduce projectile drag, providing a flatter long-range trajectory, and greater retained energy at the target.
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04-01-2009, 10:01 PM
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Huh, got any more info?
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04-01-2009, 10:57 PM
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I am going to have to side with Matt. Got a source?
That flies into the face of the fact that Chey-Tac has been hand turning their brass bullets for about a dozen years for a proprietary system that their ONLY GOAL was to have the farthest shooting, most accurate boltgun on the planet for mass production and a military contract....
I don't see how a dimpled bullet could improve on that..... But I would be most interested to see how it works....
JD
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04-02-2009, 12:17 AM
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Smells like a April fools joke
If not it will compete with the square bullet I'm developing in my basement.
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04-02-2009, 12:26 AM
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I also heard that they have a rubber composite core so they bounce better off the firing pin. 
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04-02-2009, 12:38 AM
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04-02-2009, 01:33 AM
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I do believe square bullets were, at one time, real. They were developed to be intentionally cruel, have to research it now.
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04-02-2009, 01:50 AM
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I'm working on a bunghole-flavored dog food. I'll have the recipe completed as soon as I can get a DNA sample from Ted Kennedy.
I'm gonn'a be RICH!
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04-02-2009, 02:23 AM
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I'm working on a bunghole-flavored dog food. I'll have the recipe completed as soon as I can get a DNA sample from Ted Kennedy.
I'm gonn'a be RICH!
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I'm sure that DNA isn't limited to Teddy.
I think in his day Joe populated half of East Mass! 
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04-02-2009, 03:50 AM
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It took me a minute to realize the topic subject was supposed to say Golf and not Gold...
Well, here's my input on the subject:
This must be an april fools joke, because dimples would NOT help a traditional modern day bullet. Dimples help a golf ball because it is spherical. We'd have to be talking about round (marble-shaped) bullets for this to work.
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