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You got that right! I can't claim rounds burnt in the millions but maybe a few hundred thousand. When I get up some mornings I think it's age. Then about afternoon I'm convinced it's either lead dust or nitro accumulation! Have eaten, slept and dreamed ballistics for at least forty years now but still haven't figured out WHY, once every so often, I get a "flyer" when shooting cast, paper patched, or even swaged bullets out of cartridge guns??- either BP or smokeless. On your question about handgun bullet use for big animals- don't have too much to add to other posts but some pretty interesting penetration tests have been done comparing jacketed bullets vs. hard cast. The right hard cast bullets look pretty good compared to the jacketed stuff.  

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• Bullet Trajectory pbolte Jan 18 2005
  • Guns & Ammo Annual, Petersen's Rifle Shooter Annua Ray Jan 22 2005
  • factory listings George Jan 20 2005
  • Much more simple... Brian Richardson Jan 19 2005
  • great web site Daveintheburbs Jan 19 2005
  • Trajectory Murphy Jan 19 2005
    • technical cr!% George Jan 19 2005
      • trajectory oops! Murphy Jan 19 2005
        • those darn trajectories! George Jan 19 2005
          • shootin' straight...er Murphy Jan 19 2005
            • age, etc. George Jan 20 2005