PN>John was heard muttering to Dave Appel
  > about Ammo types
PN> JR> Just to add my own unscientific test on Saturday, I fired both
  > JR> a Winchester Silvertip and a Federal Hyda-shock .380's into a dirt
  > JR> bank at about 6 feet distance and recovered the bullets.  Both 
expanded
  > JR> into perfect mushroom shapes.  The hydr-shock expanded to about
  > JR> .63 cal and the Silvertip ran nearly .68 cal. Either showed that
  > JR> they would perform as promised.
PN> How accurate would you think this would be when comparing to soft
  > tissue?
Don't have the faintest idea.  I just use such unscientific test
to compare different loads against each other at the time of the
test.  There are two many variables to draw any other
conclusions.  If I have used a wet phonebook I may have gotten
different results.
                        JR
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