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I don't care for the idea of a soft-nosed Japanese bullet in the back.

Try and kill a thing that big with soft-nosed slugs?

It wouldn't do him any good, I thought, to know that they were shooting at us with soft-nosed bullets.

But the soft-nosed slug blew out the back of her head.

And give me a box of soft-nosed cartridges for the pistol.

Use a soft-nosed load and it'll stop a water buffalo in his tracks.

The big, soft-nosed bullet should have brought it down.

Two soft-nosed bullets hit the wall to Christopher's right.

The ammunition was soft-nosed, not what he'd been used to but the only kind that was allowed for hunting.

Have you any idea what a soft-nosed low-velocity lead bullet does, Donnelly?

I want three heavy soft-nosed bullets and nine blanks.

This would be close work, with soft-nosed ammunition.

Because it reveals a mushy, soft-nosed attitude toward the vital importance of getting the job done.

Weapon: Adair was killed with a soft-nosed revolver bullet to the head.

All right, I'll take a sidearm and twenty rounds of soft-nosed ammo.

And he has, in his gentle and soft-nosed way, criticized the administration for extremism.

The soft-nosed bullets found their mark in the body of Reds Mackin.

He sits on the bed, cleaning the weapon for the last time, then feeds the soft-nosed cartridges into the magazine.

I've got soft-nosed bullets in this iron; it'ud be pretty messy.

In his hand were a dozen little .22 long, soft-nosed, smokeless cartridges.

While Levy is never referred to as "hard-nosed," he's not called "soft-nosed" either.

An autopsy found the two soft-nosed ball cartridges within 2/3 inch (17mm) of each other in Mircovich's heart.

Two soft-nosed calves stood next to her on wobbly legs, nuzzling at mama's belly.

Magazine clip for automatic, filled with cartridges containing steeljacketed, soft-nosed bullets.

Soft-nosed bullets took out the dragon's teeth, cutting down the merely human bodies with merciless accuracy.

He was firing 180grain soft-point bullets, and he saw each of them hit home.

Soft-point bullets expanded on impact, creating a wonderful mushrooming effect.

Their usual and more powerful 9mm jacketed soft-point bullets would pass through the other side, Andrew said.

Two typical designs are the hollow-point bullet and the soft-point bullet.

Soft-point hunting bullets like Nosler was using had the jacket applied in the opposite direction to completely cover the base, but open at the nose.

With its soft, all-lead composition, the ball would easily flatten or burst on contact, much like a modern soft-point bullet.

With no exceptions of which Ted knew, everybody who came into the Mahela used soft-point hunting bullets that mushroomed on impact.

In fact, bullets specifically designed to expand are often a better option here, making most of the conventional soft-points and pointed soft-point bullets fine choices.

Even so, Wolf's 7.62x39mm is available in standard full-metal-jacket configuration, as well as hollow-point and soft-point bullet loads suitable for hunting.

Jacketed flat point (JFP) is also used for soft-point bullets with a flat, rather than a rounded front.

Soft-point bullets are less common than hollow points, due to the slower expansion and greater penetration, but they fill roles that hollow points do not.

Were guessing a rifle with a soft-point slug, which would provide enough force to penetrate the skull and enough spread to do... well, to do that.

He was using Winchesters .223 Remington, a 55-grain soft-point bullet, which according to the box was best for shooting prairie dogs, coyotes and woodchucks.

Military survival issue .22 Hornet ammunition was loaded with soft-point expanding jacketed bullets, not complying with the Hague Convention.

Hit a man almost anywhere with a bullet from that six-inch barrel, and the large flat soft-point nose would knock him down as surely as a blow from a sledge-hammer.

But I do kind of feel that if you have a gun in the house you should have a soft-point bullet so it won't go through your house into your neighbor's."

As with most bullet types, hundreds of .223 choices are available;Cheaperthandirt.com, for example, sells 172 kinds that vary by weight, muzzle velocity, and form factor (e.g., full metal jacket, soft-point, jacketed hollow point).

Deer Hunting Possibility The AKS and some other military-style semiautomatics can be used for deer hunting if soft-point hunting bullets rather than metal-jacket military cartridges are used.

Company guards - brutal thugs armed with machine guns and rifles loaded with soft-point bullets - would not admit any 'suspicious' stranger into the camp and would not permit any miner to leave.

Soft-point and hollowpoint cartridges are considered to be more effective for hunting and self-defense, and are offered by Winchester, Remington UMC, Federal Cartridge, and Hornady ammunition manufacturers.

In other cases, the smooth, rounded profile typical of a soft-point bullet is preferred over the concave tip of a hollow point, because the latter tends to suffer failure to feed malfunctions in certain magazine-fed firearms.

The mechanism is the same as hollow-point bullets, but the lack of a hollow depression reduces the area upon which the hydraulic pressure can act on the lead, and thus the soft-point bullet expands more slowly than a hollow point.

Many military firearms, especially pistols, were designed to fire only full metal jacket bullet (FMJ) ammunition, and will suffer failures to feed with hollow-point ammunition, leaving soft-point ammunition the best choice for non-military defensive purposes in these firearms.