Federal Premium’s New Edge TLR Ammunition With AccuChannel Groove

1. I smile a bit wider with every new bullet innovation every time I stuff a patched round ball down the barrel of my Kentucky Rifle.

   • It’s a Pennsylvania Rifle, you heathen

     • I thought that it’s called a Jäger rifle. 🙂

       • Well done sir. Though I believe, to be absolutely pedantic, the Jaeger was the predecessor to the PA long. 🙂

       • Thanks Ralph.

       • Definitely not a Jager. Those German guns, the predecessor of the American longrifles, were of much larger bore, heavier, with much shorter barrels. The early gun smiths of Germany would have considered a rifled .50 caliber bore suitable for target shooting and little more.

     • Apparently Traditions wasn’t aware of that and they wrote “Kentucky Rifle” on the box – you can take your beef up with them. And just to really get under your skin: it’s a percussion lock and I use Pyrodex!
       (scurries away giggling maniacally)

       • I built one of those. Kind of short in the LOP. Buti t did tempt me strongly to try a more sophisticated kit from Track of the Wolf, when finances allow.

     • Negative.
       Rifles, even the ones most commonly made in Pennsylvania, can rightly be called Kentucky long rifles if they are of the style as were made to be sent to the Kentucky territories. After all, would you call a half stock Hawken a Pennsylvania rifle? An English fowler? I think not sir!

2. The Edge TLR, now with added flimflam and extreme pattycake tip for extra extreme extremeness.

   • Now with pep *and* vitality, to go along with unmatched vigor!

     • For when you’e not feeling so fresh.

   • “NEW! and improved!”
     I’m old enough to remember the buzzwords of yesterday, as well as today’s.
     BUZZWORDS! the way to sell anything to anybody. Regardless of stupid things like “facts” and “evidence”. We don’t need no stinking logic… salesmen are making claims. What more does one need?
     /sarc/… obviously.

3. If it does what they say it does, then all the long range shooters will gravitate towards it in mass.

   If not, it make an addition to the odd ammo collection next to Black Talons and Zombie green tips….

4. And all this can be yours if your rifles bore is .308!

5. I come here for the truth about guns. I didn’t come here for a commercial. Grooved bullets are nothing new.

6. moore flimflam please

7. So… I’m good to keep buying Remington White Box at Wal Mart right?

   • Remington white box?

     • It’s usually on the shelf next to the Winchester green box.

       😉

8. So, I guess the way this is supposed to work, is the groove has a sharp edge at the rear to cause a stronger shock ahead of the taper near the tail, so that shock can be marginally weaker? And that somehow translates to better turbulence characteristics toward the end of the bullet, sort of like a super-sonic vortex generator? Or is the middle shock supposed to interefere with the bow/tail shocks in some manner? Or is it just a crimping groove cut with a lathe after swaging to size as opposed to by swaging when the core is first installed before final sizing? I suppose that could sort of split the accuracy difference between solid turned projectiles and swaged/bonded jacketed types, at least in theory.

9. So theirs .308 matches trajectory of 178gr ELD-X Precision Hunter, but costs almost 50% more.

   Unless remarkable wound ballistics is proven, why bother?

10. Would love to try this in 300 Win mag, but I can’t find it anywhere. Federal has been marketing this hard, but apparently not producing it. So typical of the gun industry. By the time this hits the streets elk season is over.

11. Ammo prices are down
    Match ammo has always been more expensive that plinking ammo
    This is really expensive even for match ammo
    As others have said, it seems like a gimmick
    It it is noticeably better, we will see it used by top competitive shooters to win matches
    I somehow doubt it

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