This week's video is about Hollow Points.
Full Metal Jacket vs Hollow Point
Our video of the week is from the TV show Naked Science, and it illustrates some of the differences between the hollow point and the full metal jacket:
- The hollow point creates more damage than a FMJ on the inside of the target, which gives you a better chance of hitting something vital if your target is an animal.
- The hollow point explodes on impact, leaving a much larger exit hole than entrance hole. This is no good if you plan on using the fur or pelt of the animal you are shooting.
- The hollow point flies straighter and more accurate then soft tips. I was told this by my wife's grand dad, a championship target shooter. He holds the record in Maryland for shooting groundhogs @ 500 yards (they're targets not real Groundhogs).
- Soft tips will penetrate more than a hollow point. But, unless the game you are hunting is wearing a Kevlar vest, you will have no problem with the hollow point penetrating the animal's skin.
- After fragmenting, the hollow point will tend to ruin a little more meat then the soft point because more of the bullet's energy is transferred into the animal. But you have a greater chance of the animal dying quickly, thus leaving less time for bruising or hemorrhaging.
