My local had a box of XTP in stock.
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I'm not a big fan of Buffalo Bore but this looks like the Xtreme Penetrator bullet without the fluting.
https://www.buffalobore.com/index.ph...t_detail&p=571
https://www.buffalobore.com/images/p...21DG_Large.png
Not only do these fluted bullets seem to do more damage to gel than FMJ, they do significantly more damage to meat:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1xpAbV2gsQ
Granted living tissue is more elastic than butchered pork chops/pork ribs, but if I couldn't carry expanding bullets I'd feel better loaded with fluted underwood defender/polycase arx than ball ammo.
I've never been able to take Mr. Harrell's videos very seriously and have several reservations as to the validity of his work; his use of oranges to simulate pulmonary tissue being chief among them. None of the groceries that Harrell is shooting are documented as being valid soft tissue analogs, so conclusions drawn from Harrell's videos are suspect at best.
His observations outside of terminal ballistics usually strike me as more valid than his obervations inside the subject area.
I`ve never understood why he doesn't use rubber bags or something similar for "lung tissue." Probably to hard to obtain locally.
I tried his "break the concrete block evenly bit" with my cw45 recently, and that shit is more difficult than it looks. (I toppled the block on shot three, having blown apart the base.) He's a fine shot. But I didn't throw away my 9mm 147 Ranger T-series ammo, even after his video declared it "crap." That video, and a few others by him, do show that ammo batches vary, sometimes dramatically.
The meat target bits are fun, I just wish he described them that way instead of "definitive." Shooting water-filled jugs of a consistent type every time would be at least a comparable data set.
Hence, my highly scientific "Redneck Ballistic Protocol." 🤡
Has anyone here actually shot a live critter with any of the fluted Leigh,ARX, or silmilar bullets and necro'd the animal? I think I've read this whole thread, don't recall such.
Lehigh Defense versus...
http://www.nighthogs.com/LeHigh_Defense.php