Originally Posted By: Whitworth
 Originally Posted By: Big Todd
I agree but I've seen some blunt tipped FMJ's too.


There's a big difference between a blunt tip and a properly sized meplat. The larger the meplat, the larger the wound channel. If the bullet material (cast) bothers you, there are some alternatives "glorified" hardcast bullets (they're not hardcast, but the bullet nose profiles are similar) like CorBon's Penetrators, Punch bullets, Barnes Busters, CEB solids that do what a flat-nosed hardcast bullet is supposed to (deep, straight-line penetration) but are relatively impervious to deformation.


Wouldn't the wound channel equal the size of the diameter of the bullet, regardless of meplat diameter? If you stick a sharpened pencil through a piece of paper the hole starts out the size of the lead but ends up the same diameter of the pencil.