Re: Expanding bullets, English invention, named for


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Posted by David Sherman on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 at 14:59:54 :

In Reply to: Expanding bullets, English invention, named for posted by chriscase on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 at 10:28:44 :

I watched an movie about a bear hunt recently, that was set in the early 20th century in Alaska. The hunter took his knife and cut two crossed grooves in the tip of the round-nosed lead bullet, maybe 1/8" deep. There was no narration or anything said about it in the movie, but they showed him blast a big chunk out of a stump with it, presumably to demonstrate its purpose. I'm wondering if that X-cut on the bullet tip was a historically-authentic "field expedient" way that people made something resembling a hollow-point bullet. Were the Indian dum-dum bullets the reason that all varieties of hollow points are banned by the Geneva convention?



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