alucard0822
For great Justice
So Hornady 55 gr v max would be iffy or ok . I'm confused.
Say between 20 yrds to 100 yrds
The jacket is thin in "varmint" loads, and it will probably fragment as most are designed to. A lot of bullets that otherwise would be fine for deer in larger calibers are either redesigned to fragment, or are not reinforced enough to hold together in smaller faster calibers.
I load 165gr nosler ballistic tips in 30-06 for deer, out of my 17.5" mini mauser they clock in about 2600FPS 10' from the muzzle and are extremely accurate. They are not bonded, but expand very nicely, and stay together anywhere from 10 yards to 200 in water jugs, penetrating 4-6 gallon jugs of water. The same "Nosler ballistic tip" in .224" 60gr has a very thin jacket, and out of my 24" bolt gun, or 14.5 and 20" ARs basically turns to dust and twisted copper, and while it grenades the first water jug, it will only send fragments into the second jug, perfect for blowing up varmints, but not for penetrating big game.
Due to the popularity of ARs, and the legality of .223 for medium game hunting in many states, there are some makers putting much stronger bullets into small 22, 6mm, 25cal and 6.5mm loads. A simple expanding bullet has a copper jacket and a lead core that is pressed into it during manufacture. The tip can either be exposed lead, hollow, or hollow with a plastic tip to give better aerodynamics, and faster expansion at slow velocities, or longer range. The problem is that being the jacket and core are 2 separate peices, they tend to separate at high velocities and close ranges, and failing to penetrate. Some designs like Rem core lokt use a thick ring in the middle of the bullet that limits expansion, and locks the core in place. There are a couple ways to hold the bullet together, a bonded bullet electrically plates a lead core with copper, and builds it up thick enough to form a jacket. Being the core is chemically bonded to the jacket, the jacket supports the core, and they stay intact, this is one of the newer designs. A partition bullet is a jacket that forms 2 compartments, with a wall in the middle separating them, and 2 separate lead cores pressed into each end. The front compartment expands quickly, but the rear compartment mostly stays intact in order to limit expansion, and hold the bullet together. All copper/alloy/guilding metal bullets are a newer design, and do not contain lead. They have a fairly large cavity in the front, and bands on the bearing surface so the relatively hard bullet can compress into the rifling, and expand when it hits. Being the shape of the cavity, and thickness of the walls can be precisely controlled, expansion can be controlled fairly tightly.
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