ORIGINAL: S1
IPSCSHOOTER - "All I wanted was a civil discussion,"
Yeah, that is all I wanted, but that is not what we got. ...Deleted by CalHunter...
BTW - If any of you ...Deleted by CalHunter... look up a U.S. Gov. contract that is in the public domain, and you just happen to know someone who works for the SS, have them contact equipment specialist Bill Orourke at SS at the Maryland office. He tests and approves all lots of sniper ammo that the SS deploys with. He is also a High Master high power shooter and an extraordinary marksmen.
The tone of this one was a little better, at least as directed to me. Thank you. I think we would all be better served if everyone on both sides of the discussion would try to moderate the tone used. I admit that I don't know much about your bullets. I've been perfectly content hunting relatively small-bodied Texas Hill Country deer using Remington PSP Core-Lokt and Winchester Power Point ammo, and have never had reason to research frangible ammo. Not having an engineering background, and just thinking about it logically, it's difficult to understand how a bullet will both penetrate bone AND create these huge soccer ball sized wound channels AND not exit.
Let me see if I can structure a couple of questions that can help resolve the penetration issue. I understand that you use compression of the tungsten cores to vary the amount of penetration that the bullets will achieve. As a result of the use of the more densely compressed cores, you are able to achieve penetration not only of bone, but of engine blocks, etc... There are also claims that the bullet somehow releases this cloud of tungsten particulate matter within the game, which creates these huge wound channels, expends all the energy within the game, and doesn't exit. Logically, it seems to me that this would require less core compression. My question is, does the bullet achieve both, or is it an either/or situation? That is, do the bullets which are sufficiently dense to penetrate heavy bone, still do the "explosive" type of wound channel, or do they fully penetrate? Or, is it more or less a trial and error deal where you experiment until you find the perfect core compression that achieves the balance of penetration/explosiveness that you need for a particular situation?