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 ...

The heavy 250-grain soft-point .338 bullets deflected dramatically in the brush. In the bottom-right impact, you can see that the front of the bullet was deformed by the brush. Tyler Freel. In 1957, ...

Just the other day, I found a box of 6 mm 100-grain Pointed Soft Point Core-Lokt bullets. The red box wore a $7.83 price tag, and I must have bought them at least 45 years ago.

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.