Originally Posted by
Zhukov
This bullet doesn't fragment, it expands. In a fragmenting bullet, the extra mass of the projectile creates more fragments. In an expanding bullet, the extra mass doesn't really help and creates more barrel twist rate dependencies as the all-copper Barnes bullet is quite long. Some 1:9 barrels might have problems with the 62gr, and will definitely be borderline with the 70gr.
Understood, thanks. That actually explains a lot for me about Barnes bullets...
-B
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