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echo: guns
to: DANIEL DIGRIZ
from: BERNHARD HASSELWANDER
date: 1996-07-03 02:53:00
subject: Re: P-38 / P-1 grain safety?

DD> John Sandow spoke in hushed tones to Daniel Digriz:
DD> 
JS> Personally, I'm curious as to why you would want to load a
JS> heavier  bullet.  When someone says a load is 'heavier',
DD> 
DD> 
DD> I'm not sure I fully understand the difference between a heavier bullet 
and
DD> hotter bullet. I grasp that a combination of grains and velocity make the
DD> bullet heavy, but I don't know how one increases or decreases velocity 
exce
DD> by the grains.
DD> 
DD> The reason I got the 147gr Federal Subsonic hollowpts is I assumed:
DD> 
DD> 1. quieter (subsonic)
DD> 2. slightly more armour piercing (eg. able to shoot through a car or a 
soli
DD> door)
DD> 
DD> What I want is
DD> 
DD> 1. quiet, low flash
DD> 2. very piercing (cars, doors)
DD> 3. heavy damage (large hole)
DD> 4. no damage to my P-1
    
    So..... you want to be able to go out and hunt cars?  Any special trophy
you are looking at bagging?  :)
                                                                          
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