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Unless the angle is over about 15 degrees, you are likely skipping the bullet off the water. 55 FMJs won't "blow up" in water consistently, but varmint style bullets will. A polymer tipped bonded bullet like a TSX will give a little better performance, but you still have the angle to content with. Nothing with an open tip.
.22Magnum 60 grain solids have been my round of choice for what you are doing. Have shot a lot of turtles, snakes, carp, suckers in water and to bullets, water is almost like hitting concrete. I used to shoot into farmer's ponds out of an old bucket truck as high as I could get it. Safer, and much more effective...except the night it malfunctioned and I ended up spending the night 60 feet above the pond surface...did not sleep much that night.
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