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<blockquote data-quote="Calvin45" data-source="post: 3047538" data-attributes="member: 109862"><p>Back to the question of copper bullets, certainly they are not all created equal, as is true of lead bullets. If you're handloading these following bullets aren't an option either way but for the benefit of any factory ammo shooters watching this thread, I've heard back a terrible review of the Winchester/browning "copper impact" ammunition regarding terminal performance. I had high hopes for it actually, as it has a MASSIVE plastic tip covering a HUGE hollow point, so good expansion seemed assured. But of the exactly two people I know who have used</p><p>It in a 6.8 western (162 grain), both have been thoroughly displeased. One of them was able to hit his animal a second time in the spine/high shoulder which put it down swiftly, but the first shot was quartering towards and they ended up finding the projectile backwards in the animal, having tumbled once, and under the hide about halfway down the body on the same side as was quartering towards them. The bullet looked like it could have been loaded and shot again apart from the rifling marks. The tip was still attached and everything. Horrid performance. </p><p></p><p>The second one reported some thing similar. Took multiple shots to bring the animal down, which isn't uncommon, but the postmortem showed VERY little damage, as in FMJ type behaviour, in conjunction with erratic wound tracks as in no straight line penetration, but veering off wildly while still not opening up. </p><p></p><p>Unreliable. Do not use.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Calvin45, post: 3047538, member: 109862"] Back to the question of copper bullets, certainly they are not all created equal, as is true of lead bullets. If you’re handloading these following bullets aren’t an option either way but for the benefit of any factory ammo shooters watching this thread, I’ve heard back a terrible review of the Winchester/browning “copper impact” ammunition regarding terminal performance. I had high hopes for it actually, as it has a MASSIVE plastic tip covering a HUGE hollow point, so good expansion seemed assured. But of the exactly two people I know who have used It in a 6.8 western (162 grain), both have been thoroughly displeased. One of them was able to hit his animal a second time in the spine/high shoulder which put it down swiftly, but the first shot was quartering towards and they ended up finding the projectile backwards in the animal, having tumbled once, and under the hide about halfway down the body on the same side as was quartering towards them. The bullet looked like it could have been loaded and shot again apart from the rifling marks. The tip was still attached and everything. Horrid performance. The second one reported some thing similar. Took multiple shots to bring the animal down, which isn’t uncommon, but the postmortem showed VERY little damage, as in FMJ type behaviour, in conjunction with erratic wound tracks as in no straight line penetration, but veering off wildly while still not opening up. Unreliable. Do not use. [/QUOTE]
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