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Copper vs lead
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<blockquote data-quote="shinbone" data-source="post: 2020176" data-attributes="member: 15248"><p><em>"Truth is all copper is trying to emulate lead performance. "</em></p><p></p><p>Depends on what you mean by "performance". If by "performance" you mean quickly and humanely kills an animal, then yes, that is what a copper bullet is trying to do. However, copper bullets are using a different mechanism inside the animal to cause that quick and humane death.</p><p></p><p>The mistake of the first all-copper bullets was to try and copy lead's killing mechanism. This approach was flawed because lead and copper have fundamentally different material properties. When designers realized that copper bullet had to kill with a different mechanism is when all-copper bullets started to kill as well if not better than lead bullets.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="shinbone, post: 2020176, member: 15248"] [I]"Truth is all copper is trying to emulate lead performance. "[/I] Depends on what you mean by "performance". If by "performance" you mean quickly and humanely kills an animal, then yes, that is what a copper bullet is trying to do. However, copper bullets are using a different mechanism inside the animal to cause that quick and humane death. The mistake of the first all-copper bullets was to try and copy lead's killing mechanism. This approach was flawed because lead and copper have fundamentally different material properties. When designers realized that copper bullet had to kill with a different mechanism is when all-copper bullets started to kill as well if not better than lead bullets. [/QUOTE]
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