Posted: 10/6/2015 1:53:52 AM EDT
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Old Painless says "dupe".
Box O Truth #50 I wouldn't have believed it would work that well before seeing OP's pictures. |
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A wadcutter loaded backwards will blow someone's shit inside out and back to next week. True story. Umm, I used to load full wad cutters backwards to good effect in a .38 special. The gas check skirt worked well as a hollow point for those that couldn't handle full power loads. Soft lead in a short barrel was another reason to. Nothing like a reversed wad cutter in an old Colt detective to work wonders. |
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Dum-Dum Bullets. O_P tested some on BOT. ETA: beat by 6 secs. |
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Umm, I used to load full wadcutters backwards to good effect. The gas check skirt worked well as a hollow point for those that couldn't handle full power loads. Quoted:
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A wadcutter loaded backwards will blow someone's shit inside out and back to next week. True story. Umm, I used to load full wadcutters backwards to good effect. The gas check skirt worked well as a hollow point for those that couldn't handle full power loads. Oh, I don't doubt it's effective. But I heard so many stories from gun shop guys ever since I was a kid about how a backwards wadcutter would blow a man in half and snuff out his soul. |
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Little known fact. This technique is as old as the First World War. Trench snipers used to use metal plates with small doors to protect themselves when looking over the trench between shots. Soldiers on both sides loaded bullets backward in and shoot at the small door or the plate itself so that the flat base of the round had the highest probability of knocking shards of metal off the other side of the plate (spalling) and injuring/ maybe even killing the person behind it. That was their thinking anyway. |
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Little known fact. This technique is as old as the First World War. Trench snipers used to use metal plates with small doors to protect themselves when looking over the trench between shots. Soldiers on both sides loaded bullets backward in and shoot at the small door or the plate itself so that the flat base of the round had the highest probability of knocking shards of metal off the other side of the plate (spalling) and injuring/ maybe even killing the person behind it. That was their thinking anyway. Quoted:
Little known fact. This technique is as old as the First World War. Trench snipers used to use metal plates with small doors to protect themselves when looking over the trench between shots. Soldiers on both sides loaded bullets backward in and shoot at the small door or the plate itself so that the flat base of the round had the highest probability of knocking shards of metal off the other side of the plate (spalling) and injuring/ maybe even killing the person behind it. That was their thinking anyway. I didn't know bullet pullers and a hand press with seating & crimping dies were commonly issued. |
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Little known fact. This technique is as old as the First World War. Trench snipers used to use metal plates with small doors to protect themselves when looking over the trench between shots. Soldiers on both sides loaded bullets backward in and shoot at the small door or the plate itself so that the flat base of the round had the highest probability of knocking shards of metal off the other side of the plate (spalling) and injuring/ maybe even killing the person behind it. That was their thinking anyway. I didn't know bullet pullers and a hand press with seating & crimping dies were commonly issued. You're overthinking it. |
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I didn't know bullet pullers and a hand press with seating & crimping dies were commonly issued. You're overthinking it. I'm just trying to visualize a guy in the trenches pulling the bullet with pliers then beating it in backwards with a rock or board (or the pliers). Never discount the ingenuity of a bored soldier I guess but is there really evidence this was tried by the troops. It sounds an awful lot like the story an NCO told during FamFire with the AK that the Russian 7.62 was just slightly bigger than ours so they could fire our ammo but we couldn't use theirs. |