These hunters are just as wrong as my old elk-hunting buddy. The truth is that almost all hunting bullets expand completely by the time they penetrate their own length. This has been proven by ...

Expanding bullets, also known as hollow-point bullets or “dum-dums,” are designed to “mushroom” upon entering a target in order to stop it from leaving the body. Compared to regular ...

Any irregularity of the bullet would cause more energy to be expended in the tissues thereby resulting in greater damage. The new, non-expanding bullets, sometimes caused little tissue damage. At an ...

Modern copper bullets expand reliably, but they aren’t as malleable and prone to deform as lead-core bullets. That’s my theory anyway. The pointed bullets that Jack O'Connor used in his brush rifles ...