Hollow point, Bi-metal jackets for hunting?
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It may on occasion sorta expand - but more often then not it will not. I have found the bimetal jacketed hollow points do tumble a little more frequently though and cause pretty decent damage. I would shoot deer with them at close range.
I've read reports of them bending in half and tumbling with no expansion. Some have good expansion like a hunting bullet. Yet others have the jackets and cores separate since they aren't mechanically locked together or bonded and it all becomes shrapnel. They'll kill game, sure, but no way to tell if it'll be a clean kill or not or what the bullet will do. If I had no other options I'd use them before I used a FMJ but if I had access to anything like a real hunting bullet I'd go with that option first.
Illegal would depend on your local laws which change depending on which part of a given province you are in.
For any calibre I know of that HP bi-metal ammo is available for you can find proper hunting bullets without looking too hard. 223 and 308 are everywhere but even 7.62x39 has soft points available. Tula makes a soft point in x39 and I've also seen Federal and Winchester floating around.
Illegal would depend on your local laws which change depending on which part of a given province you are in.
For any calibre I know of that HP bi-metal ammo is available for you can find proper hunting bullets without looking too hard. 223 and 308 are everywhere but even 7.62x39 has soft points available. Tula makes a soft point in x39 and I've also seen Federal and Winchester floating around.
Thanks for the reply! I bought a case of DA 7.62x39 HP, lead core, bi-metal jacket from CanadaAmmo, just for plinking.
I was looking at the TulAmmo 7.62x39 and their SP bullets are still a bi-metal jacket. Do you think the soft point would be enough to expand the bullet, even if the rest of the jacket is bi-metal? My guess is maybe some, but not like a quality hunting round. what do you think?
I do have a bunch of quality hunting rounds in that caliber, but I was just curious if the bimetal stuff would work. From what you are saying, it sounds like maybe, but certainly not ideal, and certainly not the most ethical way to hunt.
The mild steel used in the jackets is quite malleable; it isn't hard, brittle tool steel or anything. If it's made a little thinner it will likely expand in a similar fashion to copper. If it's the normal thickness (which would be my guess) they likely wont expand well.
I just did some Google'ing about it and found a pile of info on Tula, Brown Bear, and Golden Bear soft points in 7.62x39. Looks like they sometimes don't expand and punch through like a FMJ but more often expand fairly well but almost always with a jacket and core separation. I'm not sure but I think the Tula ammo soft points might not be a bonded or mechanically locked jacket-to-core.
I just did some Google'ing about it and found a pile of info on Tula, Brown Bear, and Golden Bear soft points in 7.62x39. Looks like they sometimes don't expand and punch through like a FMJ but more often expand fairly well but almost always with a jacket and core separation. I'm not sure but I think the Tula ammo soft points might not be a bonded or mechanically locked jacket-to-core.
