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Tough bullets
I am interested in thoughts on the best “tough” bullets. When the time comes for a very well constructed bullet, what is your go to technology. Of the three types bonded, mono metal, or partitioned, which is your preferred type and why? What are the advantages, and/or disadvantages of the different types?
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Always figured I'd use Swift A-Frames if I wanted over kill in a center fire rifle. No experience though.
The FMJ 40gr pills in CCI Maxi Mag 22 wmr are very tough.
I have and still use hard cast bullets. But don’t particularly like their terminal performance. They plow a hole with little fanfare and little blood. When I do use them, I aim for large bone structure to try and break the animal down.
Bonded is probably my preferred. Of those, the Speer Gold Dots (Deep Curl/Fusion) are my most oft used.
Not the most accurate and aerodynamic of the Bonded bullets. But, they aren’t expensive and they work. Holding together and penetrating with good, reliable expansion.
Bonded bullets are also very tough, however, some of them can be REALLY tough on meat (Nosler AccuBonds, in particular, put a pounding on some African game that I shot.) I have read that this can be due to the nearly pure lead alloys in the cores of some bonded bullets resulting in hyper-expansion versus higher-antimony alloys used in other bullets, but can't confirm that in any way.
I have actually seen some surprisingly stout cup-and-core options, too. They won't be as tough as the monometals or bonded options, but smart jacket taper and a harder core ally works very well on stout game. I used a 160 gr., 7mm Sierra GameKing hollow-point that blew me away with how well it held up after hitting a cow elk. Clean, silver dollar-sized exit with no signs of fragementing.
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