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.

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, ...

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 ...

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.

They were 30 grain Aguila .22 Supermaximum cartridges, with plated soft point bullets. These bullets were designed for about 1700 fps in a rifle, but they set a new record in my pistol.