Exposing A Little Lead On A FMJ Round.....

[Blaine]

Has anybody tried this? Does it seem to make the jacket come off mo betta to reduce over-penetration? I'm thinking more of the 230 grain variety, not the smaller 9mm or 380s....For SD, I like the idea of those razor sharp shards of copper slicing, and dicing....

[Ray]

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[Blaine]

Yes.....belt sander, the side (not face) of grinding wheel, files, dremel cutters....and on and on.....

does not matter on component bullets but hold a loaded round in your bare fingers and cease and desist as it gets too hot to hold......they heat up in a hurry.....bare fingered and you can stop before the fuze is lit so to speak......

this works best on plated bullets but on a .45 230 gr with the exposed base, don't cut too much from the nose or you can stick a jacket due to the low velocity......never had it happen but in theory, friction catches the jacket while the core squeezes through the hole in the nose......

you can also clamp an adjustable shellholder from a lyman or forster case trimmer onto a drill press bed and drill a hollow point.....

I agree with all of the above. I'd be talking the smallest little ding in the nose to get the ball rolling, not filing a meplat.... When shooting thick phonebooks, the jacket sometimes stays in the book. Interesting channel, and the soft lead out the back is impressive. When it stays together, it's .45 in and .45 out for the most part. (which is not insignificant, either)

[Old Ironsights]

You could always just use a Forester Hollowpointer and call it good...

[Blaine]

You could always just use a Forester Hollowpointer and call it good...

Quote: NOT FOR USE ON JACKETED BULLETS OF ANY KIND

[Nath]

Worked for me bud.





N.

[Old Ironsights]

You could always just use a Forester Hollowpointer and call it good...

Quote: NOT FOR USE ON JACKETED BULLETS OF ANY KIND

That's called a "legal disclaimer". Sort of like " do not insert toothpick in eye" (regardless of what they do in cartoons)

If you look deep enough you will find a disclamer saying "don't file off the ojive of an FMJ cartridge' too.

[mikld]

I dunno. Bullet manufacturers pay engineers big bucks just to figger out extra destruction from a bullet. If yer jes wanting to "experiment" for sh&#! and grins, cool. I would cut grooves in the jacket, lengthwise in addition to removing jacket material from nose, to give the jacket an easy way to form into "petals".

[Blaine]

I dunno. Bullet manufacturers pay engineers big bucks just to figger out extra destruction from a bullet. If yer jes wanting to "experiment" for sh&#! and grins, cool. I would cut grooves in the jacket, lengthwise in addition to removing jacket material from nose, to give the jacket an easy way to form into "petals".

It's the difference between about 30 cents for an FMJ, and a bunch for a JHP.....AND, lots of "pelosi" and grins.....

[Griff]

Speer used to make a dandy little bullet that was commonly know as the "flying ashtray"... They worked then, and they work now... down here in Texas, I don't worry about the HP filling up with goosedown jackets and thick wool vests... light cotton shirts are no deterrent... and if a pearl snap gets in the way... so much mo betta! O wait... I meant to say that we don't have real heavy skinned animals, except for the random boar! Even then, they tend to still work.

[92&94]

I used to turn M1 Carbine ball ammo into hollow point for the purpose of shooting up the used Jackolanterns available in November - pelosi and grins it certainly was!

I think I just filed a flat and used a twist drill in a drill press (for the depth stop of course).

Not sure I would want to use that as self defense ammo by any means, but for splatting soft pumpkins it was just the ticket.

[Rusty]

I did that about 40 years ago with some .45 ACP I had. IIRC I used a rasp. They weren't uniform but they brought comfort and satisfaction to my young self. There was a difference in expansion when both were shot into wet sand.

[1894c]

I always thought the .45-hardball worked pretty good all by itself...90 years of combat experience... :)