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Old September 30, 2011, 03:56 PM   #4
FrankenMauser
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Aye, it's the bullet shape.

The hollow point of the 168s is cutting a nice little hole in the center, so the rest of the bullet doesn't have to tear the paper as much as the non-cutting FMJs.


If you want to see the results of this difference first-hand, you can run an easy experiment:
Find a cheap soft point bullet with a decent sized exposed lead tip, such as the Speer Hot-Cor (Nosler ballistic tips would work well, too).
Load 10 rounds to the same specifications.
Trim the exposed lead tip off of 5 rounds (or cut the plastic ballistic tip off), so it's flush with the end of the jacket. (nice and straight)
Fire the standard bullets.
Fire the trimmed bullets. (You may lose some accuracy by trimming, but that's not the point here. -No pun intended.)
Compare the holes in the paper.

The wider meplat (trimmed) bullets will "cut" a cleaner hole.
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