Talk:Very-low-drag bullet

message: User:JamesBWatson wants to add spam and non-existing sites to the article, and has the chutzpah to call me a vandal for removing them. Is this acceptable behaviour?  --91.10.7.177 (talk) 14:35, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Just a mistake apparently.  --91.10.7.177 (talk) 14:37, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spam 

message: This is the usual nonsense that bullet manufacturers often claim as a benefit, but it cannot be further away from the physical reality.
# Shifting the bullets center of gravity rearwards is the worst thing you could possibly do for aerodynamic stability (quote any scientific book about aerodynamics, I prefer John D. Anderson: Fundamentals of aerodynamics). It just increases the amount of spin stabilization needed! 
# It reduces the mass of the bullet, as you are launching air. That harms VLD properties. You could just as well send more mass down range with less amount of spin stabilization needed.
# The only (!!!) reason bullet manufacturers do this at all is because the production process of jacketed bullets is unstable with filled nose cones and drawn tips and suffers from uneven mass distribution which leads to imbalance spiraling of the bullet, which cannot be controlled with the existing tech. Bullet manufacturers do not want to invest in new machinery. Many of the bullet presses already made bullets for the WWs (!!!) although those machines are not the ones shown in the marketing movies. They much rather sell you the old stuff for good money. Because only very few people know enough about aerodynamics AND production processes to uncover that idiocy, it works. Wikipedia should not be part of it.
* Combined that is actually a way to inhibit VLD efforts and is just a method to counter negative side effects of an outdated production process for bullets. --Dispatcher7007 (talk) 10:01, 13 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bad statement in the "Development" section: "a cavity or hollow in the bullet nose (hollow point) to shift the projectile's centre of gravity rearwards" 

message: I cannot find any evidence of mono-metal vld bullets being sold that are marketed as being constructed of 'tellurium alloy'.
Perhaps there might be an alloy that contains a percent or two of tellurium, but I can't find any evidence of that either.  Even if that is the case, calling it a tellurium alloy is at least less than forthright.  Some easily machinable alloys composed mostly of iron, contain minute amounts of tellurium, but if you asked for 'tellurium alloys' instead of 'steel' from the producer/distributer/retailer, they would likely deny having any in stock. 
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In the previous comments, those attempting to draw similarities between the safety of copper and the safety of lead, probably need to reduce their lead intake.
70.171.47.39 (talk) 07:09, 18 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  tellurium alloy mono-metal vld bullet/ 

message: Could we get a brief explanation of what a "mono-metal" bullet is, how it compares to regular bullets, etc? I see a lot about the technical aspects of constructing one, but I have no idea what a "mono-metal bullet" IS, other than what I can glean from common sense..45Colt 18:01, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mono-metal