::To:Bernhard From:Daniel Subject:Re: P-38 / P-1 grain safe -Turiyan is 
always 
ight.
07-03-96  02:53
 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',
I usually think of hotter as faster, and heaveyer as, well, it depends.
Thats more subjective.
 DD> I'm not sure I fully understand the difference between a heavier bullet
 BH> and
 DD> hotter bullet. I grasp that a combination of grains and velocity make 
he
 DD> bullet heavy, but I don't know how one increases or decreases velocity
 BH> exce
 DD> by the grains.
You can load different bullets with "slower" or "faster" burning powder
in a particular range of powder speeds.  If that makes any sense.
 DD> The reason I got the 147gr Federal Subsonic hollowpts is I assumed:
Problem is, is that they suck.
 DD> What I want is
 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
Ok, I'll make this easyer for you.  Buy some 147 grain Silvertips.  They
come out at 1050 Fps.
 BH> So..... you want to be able to go out and hunt cars?  Any special
 BH> trophy you are looking at bagging?  :)
Mercedes!
(BTW, This message was quoted funny.  Its was directed to whomever wrote
each quote.)
... The PENTIUM is .99% accurate in calculations.... _Intel_
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