I had another middle of the night thought...
Ok, most hard-cast lead bullets designed for hunting/defense have flat noses and wide meplats. Based on the various things I've read on the internet, the wide meplat itself can cause almost as much destruction of tissue as an expanding bullet (I haven't seen this firsthand, just things I've read.) .40 S&W FMJ bullets have pretty wide, flat noses. Most 9mm (except some 147gr I've seen) and .45ACP I've seen have had round noses, and therefore seem to "zip" right through things, causing little damage. So I'm wondering, will a flat-nose .40 FMJ bullet perform similarly to a flat nose hard cast lead bullet? Will the meplat of a FMJ bullet cause as much damage as the meplat of a hard cast one? I can't find any gelatin tests of .40 FMJ bullets. It seems possible to me that a flat nose .40 S&W FMJ could do quite a bit more damage than the regular round nosed FMJ rounds of other calibers.
Help, I lost like 2 hours of sleep last night because of this!
Ok, most hard-cast lead bullets designed for hunting/defense have flat noses and wide meplats. Based on the various things I've read on the internet, the wide meplat itself can cause almost as much destruction of tissue as an expanding bullet (I haven't seen this firsthand, just things I've read.) .40 S&W FMJ bullets have pretty wide, flat noses. Most 9mm (except some 147gr I've seen) and .45ACP I've seen have had round noses, and therefore seem to "zip" right through things, causing little damage. So I'm wondering, will a flat-nose .40 FMJ bullet perform similarly to a flat nose hard cast lead bullet? Will the meplat of a FMJ bullet cause as much damage as the meplat of a hard cast one? I can't find any gelatin tests of .40 FMJ bullets. It seems possible to me that a flat nose .40 S&W FMJ could do quite a bit more damage than the regular round nosed FMJ rounds of other calibers.
Help, I lost like 2 hours of sleep last night because of this!
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