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Back in the early 1990s, I thought I was king of the mountain when poking around for whitetail with my Remington 700 Sendero in .30-06, stoked with Nosler Ballistic Tips. Using a color-coded (by caliber) polymer tip, the bullet, which had just been introduced a couple years earlier, blended the accuracy of a match bullet, the reliable expansion and penetration of the Solid Base, and the ability to resist recoil-induced deformation in the magazine to yield something special. At least more special than the Remington Core-Lokt I was using before that.

However, while revolutionary in its class and time, as far back as the 1900s, there had been an early ballistic tip of sorts– the capped bullet of Leslie B. Taylor. Taylor managed Westley Richards as the 19th century turned into the 20th and black powder gave way to Cordite as a propellant for rifles, Taylor hit on the concept of these more powerful propellants, fitted with a bi-metallic lead bullets with a hollow-pointed copper tip to deliver on performance through expansion. Further, it could be used in magazine-equipped guns.

The L-T Capped Expanding Bullet: 

Substitute the copper for polymer, and you basically have a modern ballistic tip.

The L-T Capped Expanding Bullet, co-patented with WR, quickly became the go-to hunting round, especially for those on safari, in the years leading up to the Great War.

More over at the Westley Richards Explora Blog.