ONE SHOT. MAKE IT COUNT.
The BRAVO Orca is a precision muzzleloader bullet built for hunters who get one chance at the animal of a lifetime. Engineered in Oregon. Proven in the field.
WHY THE ORCA HITS DIFFERENT
Most muzzleloader bullets are mass-produced lead swages wearing a plastic jacket. The Orca is different — a bullet designed around what actually kills cleanly: straight-line penetration, controlled expansion, and weight that stays together.
- 1. Solid C145 Tellurium Copper — The Foundation One piece of copper alloy, machined — no jacket, no lead core, no plastic.
- 2. The Nose — a Missile Profile, Not a Guess The front of the Orca is a truncated Von Kármán curve — the mathematically minimum-drag nose shape from supersonic aerodynamics, the same profile family used on missiles and aircraft, cut to our .265" open tip.
- 3. The Hollow Point and Skives — Engineered to Open When Others Won't A .235" cavity bored .450" into the nose, with six precision scorelines — skives — cut into the ogive at exactly 60° spacing.
- 4. The Driving Bands — Two Bands, and Exactly Where They Sit Two raised bearing bands: a .085" band at the base of the nose and a .110" band ahead of the tail. Nothing in between touches the bore.
- 5. The Relief Groove — Somewhere for the Fouling to Go One wide groove between the bands, recessed .005" below the bore, with ramped 20° shoulders instead of square edges.
- 6. The Tail — a Skirt That Seals the Barrel Itself The base is machined into a thin-walled skirt: a tapered cavity .300" deep, walls .030" at the mouth thickening to .045" at the root.
- 7. Three-Zone Heat Treatment — One Bullet, Three Tempers Soft nose, hard middle, soft tail — annealed in zones after machining.
- 8. The Base Edge — Where Accuracy Is Won or Lost A match-grade base: face square to the bullet's axis within .001", precise chamfer on the heel, radius at the cavity mouth.
- 9. Built Legal — to the Strictest Rules First Designed to Oregon's muzzleloader-only rules — the toughest in the West — then verified against Idaho and neighboring states.
BRAVO Orca Hunter — .50 Cal Solid Copper Muzzleloader Bullet (12-Pack)
One bullet, obsessively refined. The Orca is available in .45 and .50 caliber, matched to your bore for consistent loading and repeatable accuracy. This is the bullet we'd want in the barrel when the bull steps out at last light.
HUNTERS TALK. WE LISTEN.
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BUILT IN OREGON. NO SHORTCUTS.
Bravo Ballistics is a veteran-owned company out of Philomath, Oregon. We build one thing and we build it right. Every lot is inspected before it ships, and if an Orca ever lets you down, you talk directly to the owner — not a call center.