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The Annoyed Man wrote:Why would anybody do this at all, when high quality ammo with better performance is available for only a few dollars more per box? I always figured that cheap ball ammo is fine for plinking or a day at the range, but if you had a chunk of money tied up in a hunting trip, why wouldn't you be willing to spend an extra $5 on quality ammo? Penny wise is often pound foolish.

I said he was from DEEP EAST TEXAS - - - the deer couldn't see the hunter because a Q Beam was shining in it's eyes. I didn't ever say the guy was a legal or ethical hunter. If I knew for a fact he was firelighting deer I would have dropped a dime on him; suspected activity isn't admissible in court.

This is mostly an old wives's tale. Cutting an X in the nose of a lead bullet was thought to improve expansion this spread to FMJ ammo when it became available the problem is the FMJ is designed not to expand but to penetrate so an X will have little or no effect on expansion and a detrimental effect on accuracy. I used to work with a guy from deep East Texas who swore that by snipping the nose off of GI .308 (7.62x51 NATO) and .30-06 made them work just like "store bought" hunting ammo. Well, any pointed military FMJ from most countries will tumble in the target if they hit at a high enough velocity. This tumbling will produce a wound that to the untrained eye looks just like it was made by "store bought" ammo.

I find it interesting that even in the old days shooters realized the ammunition of the day was inadequate and the attempts, some successful some not, to improve ammunition terminal performance.