Originally Posted by
Ridgerunner56
That defense bullet is interesting. In .38 it is a 100 gr bullet but they claim 18" penetration. Their video is impressive.
Have you tried the defense bullet yet?
Do you know if anyone carries them or is it best to order from manufacture?
The video and propaganda is quite impressive but it is back to the light bullet again but a much different design.
No doubt it would perform different being solid copper if I read that right.
Could this be the faster lower recoil bullet I was looking for and this one works? Could it have penetration without over penetration thus working well as a defense round where no shoot targets are present.
Sounds like that is exactly how it was designed.
It would be good to hear some first hand experience with these bullets.
As I said earlier RR, I've only tried that design out of my SOCOM. I got busted up a good while back so I didn't get to hog hunt with it but I let one of my buddies use the SOCOM with those bullets loaded up. He dropped several hogs with various points for testing. Head, neck, and shoulder shots. Head shots= obliterated head. Neck shots= 2+inches of spinal removal. Shoulder shots= lungs a gooy mess and not a lot of heart left and 2 busted shoulders. Needless to say, the design works VERY well at rifle speeds. All the testing I have seen with the .45ACP loads look to be just as devastating.
As far as the controlled fracturing bullet goes, I have been using a MLer bullet called Bloodline that is similar in action. The petals break off and go in 3 (4 with the Bloodline) directions cutting everything in their path while the body of the bullet punches through. My daughter dropped a pretty dang big bodied buck last season with a Bloodline right in it's tracks. Lungs were a gooy mess and the spine was missing about an inch and a half of column. High shoulder shots are definitely productive on a deer
