They are NOT hunting bullets. These bullets are lather-turned solid copper alloy bullets and VERY pointy. Although I have recovered a fair number of them from dirt embankments that are mushroomed, I am VERY skeptical that they are a useful hunting bullet for game bigger than a smaller varmint in their current configuration (unless you are the U.S. military). I anticipate that a hunting version will appear down the road, but that is a discussion for another day. To date they have NOT been shot into ballistics gelatin to show the cavity effects of a bullet strike on soft tissue. I expect the results would be very interesting, but this test has not been done to date (as far as I know).