Bullet choices

[lunchbox]

There are so many bullet choices out there and all the companies say the same thing basically.
Can someone tell me what the differences are in different bullets. I know what a hollow point and full metal jacket are but im not sure about the ballistic tips hunting/varmint
accu bond
partitions
e tip
tsx bullets
bonded
and any other you can tell me about.

[wilmsmeyer]

We are thick with bullet choices. Everything from bullets that "explode" on impact to bullets that look look they could be fired again after smashing the shoulder of a Hippo.

Everything in between offer a degree of expansion and penetration.

And to add to these different degrees, they will all do it differently, for the most part, at different speeds.

For sure, there is not enough time or space here to comment on every type of bullet but if you pick your application, I'm sure you can fine tune a bullet for it with the experience on the board here.

[youp50]

Most premium bullets will fall into one of three classes.

The bonded. It is a bullet that plumbers agree with. The core, a lead or lead alloy, is soldered to the jacket, usually a guilding metal which is a copper alloy.

The H bullets. A cross section shows the jacket to be H shaped. The forward part expands on impact. The rear section, behind the partition, holds closer to original diameter and tends to penetrate deeper.

The monolith. Solid copper or guilding metal. Some have begun to carry the 'e' moniker. For environmentally safe. Even in California. No lead for their giant buzzards to swallow and die from. One manufacturer is putting a plastic tip on theirs. Another has cut grooves in theirs and called it triple shock. Copper monoliths are longer than jacketed lead core bullets. This increases barrel friction so the friction is reduced by the grooves.

Additional information is readily available at the bullet manufacturer's web sites.

[lunchbox]

thanks