45 acp LEAD hollow points

[moooose102]

i was messing around on the drill press the other day, and i tried something. i took a 230 grain cast l.r.n. bullet , flattened off the front, then made a hollow point out of it with, of all things, an exacto hobby knife. any idea how well something like this would work as opposed to a jacketed hollow point? i am sure the front end of it would mushroom out, but i wonder if it would just keep opening up and tear apart. or if it would hold together and do a decent job of transfering energy. i know,it's strange. i was just messing around, killing a little time.

 

[Grandpa Shooter]

Drilling out a lead bullet is how it was done. The newfangled stuff didn't come out til the late 70's early eighties, If I remember correctly.

 

[Marlin 45 carbine]

there was an old-timer 'smith in this town that did that years ago. he also drilled h-p into M1 carbine slugs for hunters. several around had older .45 Colt lever actions he drilled the slugs for. and other chamberings also.

 

[ClarkEMyers]

Lead hollow points work just fine as hollow points but also lead the barrel.

Hard cast bullets with a drilled hollow point will either fail to expand or possibly break up but won't mushroom nicely.

Lyman briefly offered a 2 piece mold so the body could be hard cast and the lead nose expand.

Rifle bullets of course came first long ago. Pistol bullets - see e.g. Sherlock Holmes - were commonly soft enough to expand but eventually Lee Jurras and Super Vel among others made jacketed hollow points fashionable.

 

[Sunray]

All you've done is drop the bullet weight. Cast bullets will expand anyway. A jacketed HP bullet produces controled expansion. Penetrates more then expands.