Not how I would mod ammo

When I was a kid, living on a turkey farm, we trained our Weimaraners to tree the many unwelcome feral cats that people were always dumping on our property. (Cats are extremely hazardous to an intensive poultry operation, for many reasons). There was often a danger of putting a .22 bullet both through the cat and through the roof of the barn. We solved that problem by creating very large hollow points with the tip of a pen and then cutting a shallow x in the tip. Accuracy was never tested, but at 20 feet they were very deadly and did not exit the cat. Today I'd probably use CCI Stingers with a bigger hollow point for that job.

I caught chickens once when I was young. Notice I said once.;)
 
what makes the powerpoints so effective? is it the bigger cavity on the end, or is it the extra 2 or 3 grains it has over most other hollowpoints, or both?
 
Gopher Impact

Very interesting, Is there any actual change in when it hits a gopher?

Whammy I have used the Paco tool on several hundred rounds and the impact difference is very noticeable usually you get a much louder thwap and the damge to the critter is much more lethal. FS
 
One guy posted on Rimfire Central that he used a small Phillips screwdriver to put an X into a hollow point. I have a small set of precision screwdrivers that just might work for that.
 
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