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echo: guns
to: VERN HUMPHREY
from: JOHN SANDOW
date: 1996-05-04 04:14:00
subject: Re: Exploding Bullets

VH>SH>There is nothing in the round that actually "explodes" the ball.  It is
VH>SH>just physics.
VH>This is probably a myth -- based on the description of the assassin's
VH>.22 Hornet ammunition in "The Day of the Jackal."  I've never seen such
VH>a bullet -- and seriously doubt anyone has ever used such ammunition --
VH>ordinary soft points or hollowpoints would work just as well.
.22 hornet?  Hrumph.  I never thought to consider the chambering.  I'll
have to go dig out my old Forsyth paperbacks again...
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