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Just don't do it.

Worked in the trenches to punch through enemy sniper loopholes...

The MK3 Webley boolit was almost made for it.

Then of course there is the Ness safety bullet.



Not forgetting of course full wad cutters.

I certainly wouldn't like to be hit by one whichever way it was facing.

oh well, looking forward to the reviews fromsomeof our home load experts on F-B shortly then

dromia wrote:Then of course there is the Ness safety bullet.



Not forgetting of course full wad cutters.

Do want!

There is an article by a Finnish moose hunter / shooting writer in the current Vihtavuori Reloading manual about the development of Lapua bullets since WW2 and their use in Finland. It starts with 'hunters' using 7.62X53R FMJ ball ammo because that was all that was available in the immediate postwar period. Shot as issued, the non expanding bullets saw shot moose and bears disappear into the trees (lot of them in Finland I'm told!) and hardly any taken home. Bad news for injured animals, and also the 'hunters' who desperately needed the meat during these lean times, Finland having been on the losing side in the war. So, some people started pulling bullets and reseating them reversed to get them to expand. Worked great, too great in fact - over fast expansion, limited penetration, still no meat taken home!

I saw a TV programme a few years back concerning First World War British tanks. A test was done at MOD Shrivenham where they used a piece of metal the same composition (crankshaft grade) and thickness as a tank hull and fired at it using a German Mauser rifle at 25 yards. Conventional bullets bounced off. Apparently there was some history of German riflemen pulling bullets and resetting them back to front to penetrate tank hulls. Further tests using this configuration confounded the testers as they punched a clean hole through the steel targets. Not sure why this happens, but probably the projectile with exposed lead works like a shaped charge. Makes you wonder why anyone would try this, but maybe the Germans were experimenting with a more lethal projectile against human targets and one thing led to another.