Do the 45-70 Hammerhead bullets possess meplat diameters sufficient to protect against recoil induced ignition in the tubular magazine?
This is a critically important safety issue for those firing heavy recoiling ammo in tubular magazine rifles. When loaded into the lever-action firearm, cartridges are pushed up into a tubular magazine that aligns them bullet-nose to cartridge-head. The bullet nose actually contacts the area around the primer, and even bridges it. Due to this, it is essential that the bullet nose be very blunt in order to prevent contact with the primer during the recoil pulse. The greater the recoil pulse, the greater the need for concern regarding meplat diameter. The importance of this cannot be overstated. A recoil-induced ignition in the tubular magazine is a potentially catastrophic event, both to the gun and the shooter. In response to this safety concern, we have chosen to design our bullets with the broadest meplats in the industry. This extra bluntness provides a very real measure of protection with heavy recoiling loads.
