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  2. Hollow-point bullet - Wikipedia

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    A hollow-point bullet is a type of expanding bullet which expands on impact with a soft target, transferring more or all of the projectile's energy into the target over a shorter distance. Hollow-point bullets are used for controlled penetration, where overpenetration could cause collateral damage (such as aboard an aircraft).

  3. Expanding bullet - Wikipedia

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    These were not the first expanding bullets, however; hollow-point expanding bullets were commonly used for hunting thin-skinned game in express rifles as early as the mid-1870s. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Also, the .303 was not the first military round with that trait since the old .577 Snider bullet had a hollow core, leaving wounds known for being ...

  4. Minié ball - Wikipedia

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    The Minié ball is a cylindro-conoidal bullet with grease-filled cannelures on its exterior and a cone-shaped hollow in its base.Minié designed the bullet with a small iron plug, and lead skirting that would expand under the pressure of gunpowder deflagration causing the bullet to obturate, and grip the rifling grooves.

  5. Bullet - Wikipedia

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    A similar bullet called the Nessler ball was also developed for smoothbore muskets. [31] Between 1854 and 1857, Sir Joseph Whitworth conducted a long series of rifle experiments and proved, among other points, the advantages of a smaller bore and, in particular, of an elongated bullet. The Whitworth bullet was made to fit the grooves of the ...

  6. Spitzer (bullet) - Wikipedia

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    A spitzer bullet (from German: Spitzgeschoss, "point shot") is a munitions term, primarily regarding fully-powered and intermediate small-arms ammunition, describing bullets featuring an aerodynamically pointed nose shape, called a spire point, sometimes combined with a tapered base, called a boat tail (then a spitzer boat-tail bullet), in order to reduce drag and obtain a lower drag ...

  7. Incendiary ammunition - Wikipedia

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    Incendiary bullets called "Buckingham" ammunition were supplied to early British night fighters for use against military zeppelins threatening the British Isles. The flammable hydrogen gas of the zeppelins made incendiary bullets much more deadly than standard ones which would pass through the outer skin without igniting the gas.

  8. .303 British - Wikipedia

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    The design of the Mk IV hollow-point bullet shifted bullet weight rearwards, improving stability and accuracy over the regular round-nose bullet. [12] These soft-nosed and hollow-point bullets, while effective against human targets, had a tendency to shed the outer metal jacket upon firing; the latter occasionally stuck in the bore, causing a ...

  9. .45 ACP - Wikipedia

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    In its expanding hollow point form, it is also particularly effective against human targets. In tests against ballistic gelatin, a 185-grain (12.0 g) hollow point traveling at 1,050 feet per second (320 m/s) expanded to about .76 inches (19 mm). This is a significantly large permanent wound cavity for a handgun projectile.