Thread: .243 staball 6.5

Originally Posted by csmiffy

Being a solid copper, the barnes may increase pressure and therefore velocity.
I have a barrel from a blown up rifle from that sort of thing happening

Barnes generally won't because of the relief grooves in the shank of the projectile,

The Nosler E-Tips don't have grooves & they have along bearing surface so they will definitely increase pressure as noted by Nosler in their reloading data