by Al in Mi » Fri Dec 01, 2017 5:07 am
The old SST ML bullets had a hard pointed plastic tip available in 250 and 300gr, were also available as the TC Shockwave with a yellow tip, blue tipped SW's were bonded. They all had a reputation for either not expanding or detonating on impact, many of us confirmed this with our Savage ML's launching them at 2400fps. Never tried the bonded on hair at that time.
Around the advent of the 450, Hornady came out with the FTX line with the soft spongy tips and not surprising the ML bullets were now spongy tips too. I've sectioned them all to compare jacket thickness and could tell no difference. I had no way of checking lead hardness or jacket hardness which might of been a variable, but jackets and construction were the same across all of them. Those pics are tied up in photobucket and I have since move to a different hosting service but if I run across them in my cleaning I'll repost what they looked like.