Whereas your traditional soft point bullet uses a lead core with a copper jacket over the outside of it,” said Justin Gaiche, owner of Chase Outdoors in Rothschild.

During World War II, when other police departments across the country were struggling to provide ammunition for their officers’ weapons, t Police Department found a magic bullet. Thanks to a bit of ...

So-called jacketed soft-point bullets—the jacket protecting the shank of the bullet with a nose of exposed lead, often flat—(JSP) were problematic and not always reliable at handgun velocities.

I’ve also seen sub-m.o.a. accuracy out of soft-point bullets like the ones loaded into Remington’s classic Core-Lokt line, I just wouldn’t expect either round to do the same far beyond 300 ...

Soft point bullets are designed to expand upon impact and are commonly used for deer hunting because they provide controlled expansion, which results in quicker, humane kills. There are also polymer ...

Unlike normal bullets, soft point bullets have an exposed tip. Therefore, when it hits the human body, it can expand and cause a wound larger than the diameter of the bullet.