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Originally Posted By: willy1947


Bullets for long range shoot. Palma and F class matches use open tipped bullets. Plastic tipped were first used in lever rifles. the plastic tip is just for sales.


 


OTM bullets arent usually listed as engineered for hunting, however accurate they may be.  so in this case, they may well be mostly irrelevant to a hunting conversation.


as i understand it, the jackets and cores are focused on engineering for consistency, not controlled expansion.  as such many of them are more likely to exhibit a tendency to splash more often - or on the opposite end not expand at all and just icepick thru -  compared to a bullet engineered with a tapered jacket, poly tip for expansion assistance/control, or other such mechanisms that modern hunters are used to.




i will disagree that in all instances the plastic tips are just to sell bullets.  i have to think with so many manufacturers producing them they have to have some valid use besides just a feel good feature.  if that were the case, why hasnt everyone just gone back to good old HP's and SP's then?  one would think that the real world results would shake even the hardest core believers once they failed repeatedly and started costing hunters game.


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