Hunting ammo for rifles is also brass-jacketed. The difference between it and
military rounds is that the jacket on military rounds covers the entire bullet;
in hunting rounds, the tip is left exposed. This gives the military round more
range and decreases the chance that the round will kill the enemy soldier (as
agreed to by the Hague Convention). The hunting round expands more readily on
contact and is designed to kill as humanely (ie: rapidly) as possible.

Well, this is just a little bit off, in my experience.

Jacketed rounds aren't meant to less the chance the round will kill
the soldier, but to lessen the damage it does to his insides if he
survives the hit.

And hunting rounds are soft-nosed not to kill rapidly but to ensure
that a leg wound or or non-fatal hit will cripple the deer, so that he
will be tracked and killed by the hunter, rather than escaping into
the next county and dying a slow death from the cold and predators.

I know how hunting rounds are built. I'm sitting less than two feet
from a box of .303 British Core Lokt Soft Point.


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