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Message: <blockquote data-quote="big green chopper" data-source="post: 3919265" data-attributes="member: 46480">I have several thoughts on this and some real experience:1. There is this misconception that I beleive is based on marketing that has penetrated (pun intended) the hunting community guised as "ethics", that you MUST use a hunting bullet or you are a ****** person in general and aught to be forced to clean public porta johns to pay for your sins. 2. I have shot MANY thousands of rounds of fmj xm193 and M855 at many different targets. The fmj strategy as a combat bullet design (to inflict casualty, but not maximize internal damage via frag & expansion, thus taking other opponents out of the fight to care for said casualty) has been interpreted by the hunting community as a bullet that leaves a .224 entrance hole, and a .224 exit hole. This is not the case based on my experience. While you will not achieve reliable expansion, they do make a wound channel, expand to some extent, and destroy whatever they hit.3. I have shot hornady BTHP in 6.5mm that were designated "match target" and they performed beautifully on white tail (6.5mm entrance x 4" exit). In contrast, several of the 6.5 designated hunting projectiles I have used have an uncanny consistency in terms of internal damage and modest exit wound patterns. There is undeniable quality to the specific high quality hunting bullets I used. However, the HPBT "match target" bullet left much more devastation. The trade-off is that the BTHP match projectile fragmented a lot more and I did have to pick out 2 or 3 shards out of the meat. I would not use the HPBT target projectile on large game where max penetration and weight retention is required. 4. Final thought... with proper shot placement you can mitigate risk associated with less desireable projectile.</blockquote>

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