Plastic tips and bonded jackets are marketing gimmicks. Cup and

>>33076607
They're good for not blowing your hand off when loaded into a tube magazine.

>>33076622
>any date after the 1890s
>still using tube magazines.

>>33076644
>being gay
It's ok anon, it's 2017, you can even marry animals if you're Canadian.

>>33076607
>soft points get mushed up during transit or in the magazine during recoil
>get fucked

>velocity too high/low
>get fucked

>skin too thick
>get fucked

>hit bone or spine
>get fucked

Technological innovation to mitigate the above scenarios that could ruin excessive amounts of meat or blow a prize trophy hunt are marketing gimmicks?

But I like explosive expansion, high weight retention and evil looking red tipped bullets...

>>33077686
I just want to find the 300+ grain 458cal for lever and ruger #1 reload purposes and my state included reloading components to its online order ban

>>33076607
Am I a terrible person for wanting a bullet that'll go clean through and not leave any fragments inside?

>>33079526
Looks like it's time for a road trip, fag

>>33079560
Yes. Yes you are. That's called FMJ and has much less lethality than a mushrooming/frangible design.
Consider KYS

>>33076607
so do bonded bullets at 3000+ fps. end up looking just like that

>>33079723
Believe me most of my shit is bought in PA or DE it just sucks having to drive 4 hours to find what I want after finding a store with it in stock. NEVER give up online ordering, it is a pay barrier that can kill off interest way too easily

Meh. FMJ all the way, baby. Only time I use softpoints are where required (shooting deer in FL). Ironically, I use FMJ for shooting hogs, generally MUCH tougher to kill than deer, and have been completely successful. I've shot hogs with 9mm FMJ, drop like a rock. Same with 5.56 FMJ and .45 FMJ. I had zero worries about using FMJ in self defense scenarios after my first couple of hog hunts. All of the anti-FMJ whining and paying 3-5 times as much per round, I'll leave to you guys.

>>33080102
So long as follow up shots and backstops are not an issue fmj is fine and for animals often preferred (depending on a lot of factors)