Explosive 8M3 bullet are being imported again

Hello Nathan,
I knew more than one LEO back in 1970-1973 who drilled out the nose on a 357 mag and put a reversed primer in the cavity along with a drop of Lock Tite. I never went that route I had access to Super Vel. Might even have some left. Empty boxes now sell for more than I paid for the ammo.

blindhari

Hold your horses, nothing explosive here; just decent hollowpoints (that won't feed in my VZ58 drum for anything, but otherwise are good ammo)

Are they DECENT hollowpoints? A steel jacketed hollowpoint that expands?

Jim Watson said:

Are they DECENT hollowpoints? A steel jacketed hollowpoint that expands?

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They are purported to fragment...

M

Never had them expand or fragment like you would expect from a hollow point. They yaw just like any other fmj. Occasionally they break up after tumbling. At least that was my experience shooting them and into wet paper. Sure somebody has a gel test around the net.

What am I missing here? What makes them "explosive"?
If they are explosive we better load up all of our clips for our assault rifles.

illinoisburt said:

Never had them expand or fragment like you would expect from a hollow point. They yaw just like any other fmj. Occasionally they break up after tumbling. At least that was my experience shooting them and into wet paper. Sure somebody has a gel test around the net.

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Seems like it would be a good round for home defense, as it didn't exit the 16" block and dumped all it's energy within the first 8" or so. I would be curious how it expands at greater distances say 100-150 yards.

This was great ammo back in the 90's to early 2000's. I still have most of a case of blue box Barhaul 8M3. This stuff fragments like nobodys business.



I wish this new offering from SG was lacquer coated cases v/s poly.

I got to hand it to SG.... Sam constantly goes out and finds what ammo people want. One of the best places to buy ammo from ever.
Will

Hunting rifle ammunition FMJ. LOL

Ranger Roberts said:

What am I missing here? What makes them "explosive"?

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You missed nothing, just caught the unnecessary hyperbole of the OP.



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I just checked...

I have a 'few' boxes of the older blue and white 8M3...

I had no idea that there was anything special about it...