The Old Exploding Bullet

[armoredman]

I bought some of the Devastator 9mm rounds back in the mid 80s, primer loaded over a charge in the hollowpoint. They worked very poorly. I'll stick with proper JHP tech.
As for nitro, well, it's Hollywood. Shoulda just made the kid the inventer of the first phaser and went from there.

 

[Pulp]

My brother ordered some 12 gauge slugs that were hollowed out, and accepted a 209 primer. We filled them with black powder, magnesium powder and other stuff to use in a Cowboy Action night shoot. We weren't impressed. Not much of anything happened, other than the usual CLANG of lead striking steel.

Now the Spotter rounds offered by Hi-vel are a different story.

http://hi-vel.com/Catalog__24/Spotter_Ammunition/spotter_ammunition.html

Here's a video of them in action, the first three shots are regular lead .45Colt, and sadly two of them are misses. But the last two shots are the spotter rounds. Whether they would explode in flesh or not I don't know, but they work great on steel. At night they're almost blinding.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJs_oSjTT1E

 

[ranger335v]

This brings back a memory from the early 60's.

A friend's father was a fisherman, reloader and hobbiest machinest. The ol' dude had a 45/70 trap door he used to shoot sharks off the coast of Jacksonville, FL. He cast bullets for it, bored a "hollow point" hole for a press fit .22RF, shaved a few match heads into the cavity, pullet the bullet from a .22 short, poured the powder over the match heads and pushed the case down over the whole thing for a contact detonator. Word was, it worked very well.

Yeah, it was illegal then too but he's dead now. (I just hope the BATF wants to go pull him outta the fix he's in so they can persecute him. Understand it's one-way trip so they can join him there!)