It's like the opposite of a hollow-point

[DeadFlies]

I was loading some .45 auto the other night when I found this in a bag of Remington 230 grain FMJ bullets. Apparently, there is a bit of the lead core poking out from the nose of the bullet.

Probably just a manufacturing defect but, let's speculate a bit: Is this Remington's new Narwal/Unicorn line of bullets? Some kind of super-penetrator round? An attempt to improve a bullet's radio reception by adding an antenna?

I'll probably just throw it away, or keep it as a curiosity, or maybe load it and see what happens.

Anybody see this before?




Edit to add a pic of the base. Looks rather mangled to me...

 

[stressed]

Curious, what's the grain weight of it?

and standard 230gr, it's like two 115gr 9mm's.

 

[DeadFlies]

Curious, what's the grain weight of it?

and standard 230gr, it's like two 115gr 9mm's.

That's a good question. I never thought to weigh it. Going to do that as soon as I can.

Bullet weighs 234.5 grains.

 

[higgite]

Probably just a manufacturing defect but, let's speculate a bit: Is this Remington's new Narwal/Unicorn line of bullets? Some kind of super-penetrator round? An attempt to improve a bullet's radio reception by adding an antenna?

That protrusion could be a top secret experimental heat seeking module that somehow slipped out of the lab. If I were you, I'd drop the pistol and run immediately after firing it.

 

[Owen]

I'm guessing the jacket had a hole in it, so when they swaged the core into the jacket, it squirted out the front.

 

[rcmodel]

Yep!

That's exactly what happened.

rc

 

[DeadFlies]

That protrusion could be a top secret experimental heat seeking module that somehow slipped out of the lab. If I were you, I'd drop the pistol and run immediately after firing it.

Ya, I thought it might be a top-secret NSA (Hi guys!) listening device, cleverly hidden in a bullet with only a bit of the microphone protruding, so that nobody would notice.

Then I thought it might get me in trouble if I wrote that idea out in plain English on the 'net, so I didn't.

 

[horsemen61]

I'd keep it for my collection

 

[gamestalker]

I know exactly what it is, it's a new line that not only has an improved BC of .600, but it is also capable of operating in a drone mode, it can be controlled from 7,000 miles away from a lap top. This information was provided to me by an alien, via mental telepathy.

I met this alien while having a drink with her in a bar at Howard Johnson's. Actually I think it was a room on the mother ship made up to look like a Howard Johnson.

GS

 

[ReloaderFred]

When you buy factory seconds from the factories, you'll get a few like that. The one you have escaped the inspector. When you look at the all day long, they all start to look alike, so it's easy to miss one out of the many thousands.

Hope this helps.

Fred

 

[KansasSasquatch]

I watched a video not too long ago about how one company (Hornady I think) makes their soft point rifle bullets. They started with a chunk of lead that resembled a wadcutter. It eventually ended up with a tip like that, that eventually gets nipped off before the final swaging. RC and Owen are probably correct about it having a hole in the jacket before swaging. I would expect the base would be a little more uniform even if that happened but I'm no swaging expert.

 

[WestKentucky]

Easy now, calling it the narwhal super penetrator deluxe might get the "save the whale" people in a fuss. I would contend that another fitting name be the Remington aeriola express.

 

[mstreddy]

How about the UniCorn?

 

[Drop45]

When you need to take a break from hand loading just tie a string around it and you'll have, well you know a spinning top.

 

[Odd Job]

That there is the New Jersey Hydra-Shok(tm)

 

[oldeadeye]

It's obviously of the male persuasion... sorry, just had to do it.