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PostPosted: Fri Oct 16, 09 9:05 am    Post subject: Re: expanding amunition!!! Reply with quote
    

bodillymill wrote:
all bullets expand upon impact... so all are expanding.... to some extent.


All bullets deform to some extent on impact which isn't the same as expansion when pertaining to deliberate bullet deformation with the intent to cause maximum wounding.

We shoot into sand at the range and large calibre bullets rarely do any meaningful expansion, they lose part or all of their jackets and sometimes look as though they could be reused. .17HMR's are impossible to find and .223 often start tumbling on impact, during the Vietnam conflict this little round was said to be, by the press, an expanding round as it caused massive injuries but it this was not the case it just tumbled easily on contact.

Larger calibres don't deform a great deal when hitting animal flesh unless they are designed to.

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