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<blockquote data-quote="JediSoth" data-source="post: 1671407" data-attributes="member: 13882">A wadcutter is actually a flat-nosed target round. It is shaped like a cylinder, fairly low powered and used because it makes very nice little holes in the target, almost like a hole punch.&nbsp; I've mainly seen them sold for .38s. &nbsp;&nbsp;The frangible bullets, such as Glaser safety slugs, are designed for home defense to minimize over-penetration. They break apart upon hitting solid objects to disappate the energy more rapidly. &nbsp;&nbsp;Hollow-points are designed to mushroom upon impact, creating a large wound cavity. Used often in hunting applications, they make good personal defense rounds as well, as they don't have a tendancy to over-penetrate.&nbsp;&nbsp;Ball ammunition, aka full metal jacket, can shoot through walls, people, car doors (actually a lot of bullets will go through a car door, so Morpheus and Trinity should have been swiss cheese during the freeway chase in The Matrix: Reloaded). They're used for target practice and military applications.&nbsp; The copper jacket over the lead tends to minimize fouling of the barrel, allow the weapon to be fired more between cleanings.&nbsp;&nbsp;Then you have other types of ammo, less commonly encountered for modern firearms, like round nose lead (used in a lot of &quot;cowboy&quot; calibers, like .45 LC), steel jacketed rounds (military surplus ball ammo from WWII, or behind the Iron Curtain, indoor ranges hate it 'cause it takes divots out of their backstops), tracers, and armor piercing.&nbsp;&nbsp;Of course, I could go on and on, but I don't want anyone to think I'm a gun nut. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />&nbsp;&nbsp;JediSoth</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JediSoth, post: 1671407, member: 13882"] A wadcutter is actually a flat-nosed target round. It is shaped like a cylinder, fairly low powered and used because it makes very nice little holes in the target, almost like a hole punch. I've mainly seen them sold for .38s. The frangible bullets, such as Glaser safety slugs, are designed for home defense to minimize over-penetration. They break apart upon hitting solid objects to disappate the energy more rapidly. Hollow-points are designed to mushroom upon impact, creating a large wound cavity. Used often in hunting applications, they make good personal defense rounds as well, as they don't have a tendancy to over-penetrate. Ball ammunition, aka full metal jacket, can shoot through walls, people, car doors (actually a lot of bullets will go through a car door, so Morpheus and Trinity should have been swiss cheese during the freeway chase in [i]The Matrix: Reloaded[/i]). They're used for target practice and military applications. The copper jacket over the lead tends to minimize fouling of the barrel, allow the weapon to be fired more between cleanings. Then you have other types of ammo, less commonly encountered for modern firearms, like round nose lead (used in a lot of "cowboy" calibers, like .45 LC), steel jacketed rounds (military surplus ball ammo from WWII, or behind the Iron Curtain, indoor ranges hate it 'cause it takes divots out of their backstops), tracers, and armor piercing. Of course, I could go on and on, but I don't want anyone to think I'm a gun nut. :p JediSoth [/QUOTE]

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