Nerd-fight! Ballistics testing on frangible ammo

[ADHDCanuck]

You can definitely consider 17 caliber V-Max ammo frangible... our experience with 17 HMR V-Max through a cardboard box is that it shreds apart... the casing is in multiple tiny pieces the poly tips separate... but... I have noticed striations on the small bits of casing... whether those bits could be reassembled and then compared to a known source... I highly doubt it... at least not with any kind of admissable certainty. And remember... we were shooting through two layers of cardboard... if the target is of a denser material (flesh & bone), I would expect the V-Max projectile to shred to a greater degree. The shredding that occurs would logically be less with HM2 since it shoots at a lower velocity... all else being equal.

hm2 seems like a waste of time in general to me.
thats great summation. thanks!

Now all CIA operatives will be outfitted with suppressed 17HMR pistols