5.56mm MK318 mod 0

[fredtheobviouspseudonym]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

Expanding ammo (Jacketed Soft Point or JSP wehn you go tot he gun store) is common for humnting rounds becasue it's so much easier to achieve with rifle velocity and rifle bullets have even more overpentration potential than pistol bullets.

Not sure about now but back in the 1970s the use of expanding bullets for fairly large game (deer & larger) was required by law. Non-expanding bullets tended to wound the animals and they would die slowly & painfully. [The idea then was that the quicker the death the less inhumane. Don't think anyone polled the deer.]

There were exceptions for large-bore muzzle-loaders.

This is from certain states in the Midwest that allowed hunting with rifles (vs. many eastern US states that limited hunting to shotguns with buckshot or slugs.)