Reeder Custom Guns - Pure Lead Balls from a sixgun

Jim Taylor
Pure Lead Balls from a sixgun
Tuesday, September 03, 2019, 08:43

I have not shot a lot of things with pure lead balls, but the few things I have .. or have seen shot with them from handguns ... leads me to believe the ball initially flattens/expands when it hits flesh, then progressively the "nose" wears off and it gets a smaller front-end profile, making the entrance wound larger than the exit wound.

I saw this on animals I shot and on one guy shot with a Colt .44 Army.

Brinell Hardness - Tom, 2019-09-03, 06:48
- late add on but bullet fit is pretty much - Lynn, 2019-09-04, 06:39
- Yes. Probably. Maybe. Or No. But not necessarily - ChrisG, 2019-09-03, 09:04
- Lots of factors involved in that question... - Huey, 2019-09-03, 07:02
  - HUEY IS TOTALLY RIGHT!!! ALSO - JT, 2019-09-03, 07:33
  - Huey is right. It's probably ok at modest speeds. - WB, 2019-09-03, 07:21
    - Pure Lead Balls from a sixgun - Jim Taylor, 2019-09-03, 08:43
      - You superficially told me that story once. It probably made - WB, 2019-09-03, 10:33
        It was pretty bad ... - Jim Taylor, 2019-09-03, 10:41