Quote Originally Posted by Jake'sDad View Post
iirc, the ATK rep said the bullet was tweaked a little bit in the last year or two, maybe that would explain it being better in the shoots I've seen. I'll see him at SHOT and ask him.
Unless Federal bonded the jacket to the lead core, and then rounded out the nose to make it beefier like they did with their bonded 135gr+P, "tweaking" won't make much difference in its performance against windshields. Their 135gr+P bonded was designed specifically to tackle windhshields. It's harder to make, which is why it is more expensive.

Winchester's 147gr Ranger Talon does better in the windshield tests than the HST. Probably because the jacket is thick around the nose, and it is wrapped deeply into the nose cavity so that the construction is tougher.