"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message
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Cub Driver wrote:

I've often been amused by the thought that shooting at a man obliges
the shooter to use a brass-jacketed round, while shooting at a deer
obliges him to use soft-nosed shells (or a lead slug, in the county
where I live).

Hunting ammo for rifles is also brass-jacketed. The difference between it
and
military rounds is that the jacket on military rounds covers the entire
bullet;
in hunting rounds, the tip is left exposed. This gives the military round
more
range and decreases the chance that the round will kill the enemy soldier
(as
agreed to by the Hague Convention). The hunting round expands more readily
on
contact and is designed to kill as humanely (ie: rapidly) as possible.

An FMJ bullet adds nothing to range. AAMOF, most match ammo is small hollow
point.


Rounds used by the police depend on local policies. The policy of the FBI
is to
use rounds deliberately designed to kill as certainly and rapidly as
possible.
They are not fully jacketed. The so-called "cop-killer" rounds were
designed to
be used by the police to punch through car doors. They're jacketed.

Unjacketed lead bullets are used almost exclusively in some types of black
powder
firearms and in shotguns.

Cast bullets come in tow varieties; soft lead, for black powder arms, and
hard cast (adding antimony and tin to about 8%) that are used for target
shooting. There's a school of thought that says the most damaging bullet you
can shoot at a human body is a hard cast semi-wadcutter.

Frangible bullets are typically made from machined nylon bar stock. If it
hits any flesh, it virtually explodes about an inch or so inside the body.