zobster wrote:I was using cci 22wmr, can't remember which variety, was bought off a mate after he sold his rifle. There wasn't much of a entry hole or exit hole, was struggling to find any holes actually, but I must be hitting them right cause they were dropping.
zobster wrote:Isn't hollowpoints designed to expand upon impact, create a large wound channel and unload all it's energy into the target. What is happening with me is that the bullets are acting like FMJ instead of HP. If it had done it's job of expanding and creating a large wound channel, the animal would not have survived a neck shot.
It happened on 2 animals that my head shot went a little low and to the left, missed the spine and the bullet just went in and out. Ended up having to shoot the 2 at center mass as they were on the run and I did not want them to jump off into the bush and bleed out slowly.
Not exactly on impact, no.
Ballistic tip projectiles are perfect example, they're designed so the tip penetrates
then the projectile expands dumping all it's energy in the target.
If a bullet hit bone just below the skin and blossomed straight away it would be like lots of little bits of shrapnel peppering the animal, that means much less energy being retain and tranfered compared to an intact projectile mushrooming and staying in one peice.
Without the tip an average hollow point will act in a similar way to the BT and penetrate with minimal expansion and begin expanding rapidly just inside so you won't get a large entry hole. Same for centre fire stuff too, .308 entry would is normally something like a 10c coin.
If you're getting no exit wound that's perfect as all the energy went into the animal, if it passes through but there is a big channel then that probably good enough but if they're just pencilling through in-and-out like you said then they're no good.
For all that said though the .223 is going to do way more for you anyway so stocking that instead is gunna solve your problem anyway