Hornady A-Tips

[Jackie_Daytona]

Any opinions or experience with A-Tips. I’ve been using ELD-M and recently read about the reliability (or lack thereof) of the plastic tips…which led to the A-Tip being developed.

Hype? Or better than Berger?

 

[long hunter]

Dont know about the A-tips but the SST works well for me, If you can now find them.

 

[Jackie_Daytona]

Seems like you can’t find much of anything lol. I want to make sure I know what to get whenever it does come back.

 

[long hunter]

Yes know what you mean, Sierra 165 .308 SPBT is now a go too for me, the local gun shop seems too be able too keep them in stock.

 

[Jackie_Daytona]

I get to cheat and get a stock of 168 smk from work…but that’s for the .308. Going bigger id like to have better bullets.

 

[Formidilosus]

Any opinions or experience with A-Tips. I’ve been using ELD-M and recently read about the reliability (or lack thereof) of the plastic tips…which led to the A-Tip being developed.

Hype? Or better than Berger?

There is no reliability issue with plastic tips. That’s not the reason for the A-Tip.


As far as A-Tips go, precision and flight is excellent, terminal effects can be variable depending on which specific model and it varies between lots.

 

[General RE LEE]

Reliability with the tip of the ELD-M?

 

[Maidenfan539]

I've shot all 3 in my 6br. Granted these are the 6mm, 105 hybrid, 108 ELD-M and 110 ATip the berger and Atip both shoot well. I didn't like the ELD-M.

 

[InkedElkSlayer]

Got a 6.5CM build in time to pack the last week of the season. I shot a mulie and my youngest shot a whitetail. Was very pleased with the first 2 shots on animals. Good placement, yes. But the bullets performed excellent. Nothing crazy, 165yds and 120yds. 153gr A-Tip. I bought 1000 of them this Nov-Dec. Only 2 bucks, but a good start for the first week.
Accuracy is excellent with my combo

 

[LonePeak18]

I believe the reliability issues related to plastic tips comes from the old Hornady A Max bullets. Supposedly this issue was fixed with the introduction of the ELD-X and ELD-M.

 

[jshelton2006]

Atips shoot great and are extremely consistent. Not too cheap though. I’ve had good luck with them so far, target use only.

 

[InkedElkSlayer]

Atips shoot great and are extremely consistent. Not too cheap though. I’ve had good luck with them so far, target use only.

You are correct. I bought some at Scheels. $74/100, no shipping, limit of 200. Then… they were out of stock everywhere. Some sites were over $90/100 and not even available. After a while, I found a deal at $68/100 with no limit and BOUGHT bullets!