How Bullets Kill: Terminal Performance of Modern Monometals
Backcountry Hunting Podcast
Joseph von Benedikt
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🗓️ 24 May 2024
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
How good are modern monometal hunting bullets? All-copper and copper-alloy designs have undergone a lot of evolution in the past couple decades, and are becoming more and more popular. This episode takes a deep dive into the primary performance characteristics of the type, focusing on:
- Killing effectiveness
- Accuracy potential
- Different expansion mechanisms
- Long-range capability
- Barrel fouling and how to manage it
- How to choose the right bullet for your specific hunts
We talk through the specific performance features of bullets by Barnes, Hornady, Hammer, Nosler, Federal and others, and detail what each is particularly good for.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Do monom metal bullets meaning copper or all copper alloy bullets kill better worse or just differently than traditional lead core bullets |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome to the backcountry hunting podcast today folks. I'm Joseph Van Benedict, your host, and today we're going to explore this question. |
| 0:21.0 | As you can see out in front of me I've got for those of you watching on |
| 0:25.0 | YouTube I've got a big lineup of expanded bullets these are all recovered from |
| 0:31.5 | actual game animals as well as a few examples of unfired |
| 0:36.4 | monom metal bullets and some cutaway monom little bullets. |
| 0:39.8 | So for those of you watching this will just, we'll use these as kind of a visual as we're explaining a few of the different types and characteristics of this variety of hunting bullet. |
| 0:51.6 | And we're specifically going to focus this time on a couple of things, right? |
| 0:57.0 | One of the foremost is the new monom metal bullets on the market. |
| 1:02.0 | Now we're talking about bullets like hammer, bulldozer, and so forth. |
| 1:06.0 | Some of those that have only been around for let's call it about half a decade. |
| 1:10.5 | There are some that have been around for well over a quarter century. We'll talk about those |
| 1:16.4 | too because they are still in many ways at the tip of the spear. Barnes Bullets, for example, brought the monomental bullet to the hunting scene, right? |
| 1:26.5 | And that's their primary focus. They don't do much else. They don't invent cartridges. They don't really |
| 1:32.3 | build many lead-core bullets. They don't really build many lead core bullets they don't build anything but monomidal bullets and so they tend to build very very good ones |
| 1:40.5 | Okay so specifically some of the topics that we're going to to address today are |
| 1:48.0 | killing effectiveness and the different killing effectiveness of the various types of |
| 1:53.1 | monobettle bullets and we'll touch briefly on how they compared to |
| 1:56.4 | lead core bullets as well. |
| 1:58.0 | Accuracy potential. |
| 2:00.4 | Can a monomettle bullet shoot as well as a really good lead core design? |
| 2:05.0 | We'll talk about it. |
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