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Frangible vs pass through
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<blockquote data-quote="73driver" data-source="post: 2898549" data-attributes="member: 36473"><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Frangible -- means fragile, brittle. I have hunted quite a bit with Sierra, Hornady SST, Nosler BT and I would definitely say they are not frangible. The do mushroom easily and wear down, sometimes loosing their copper jackets, but brittle? No. You do not want to ever hunt with a brittle and fragile bullet because they just wont penetrate far enough to kill quickly. Shooting silhouette with more experienced competitors and they tell me some bullets when hitting the steel are so brittle that they splatter dissipating all their energy and wont knock mover the target.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="73driver, post: 2898549, member: 36473"] [SIZE=4]Frangible -- means fragile, brittle. I have hunted quite a bit with Sierra, Hornady SST, Nosler BT and I would definitely say they are not frangible. The do mushroom easily and wear down, sometimes loosing their copper jackets, but brittle? No. You do not want to ever hunt with a brittle and fragile bullet because they just wont penetrate far enough to kill quickly. Shooting silhouette with more experienced competitors and they tell me some bullets when hitting the steel are so brittle that they splatter dissipating all their energy and wont knock mover the target.[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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