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<blockquote data-quote="BallisticsGuy" data-source="post: 1671197" data-attributes="member: 96226"><p>Fragmentation only means that the bullet broke at least one piece off. It's not like it went to powder and lost penetrative capacity. Catastrophic fragmentation is useful in some places like varmint bullets. Controlled fragmentation (which is what those CEB's are) is quite a different thing which I think OP is misunderstanding. The vast majority of the mass appears to hold together in a single mass and enables the very deep penetration that I've come to find is characteristic of monometal big game projectiles. The few petals don't seem to make up much total mass at all. If you look at how much mass typical lead core unbonded big game bullets like to lose and compare the numbers I think you'll recalibrate your choice of terminology.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BallisticsGuy, post: 1671197, member: 96226"] Fragmentation only means that the bullet broke at least one piece off. It's not like it went to powder and lost penetrative capacity. Catastrophic fragmentation is useful in some places like varmint bullets. Controlled fragmentation (which is what those CEB's are) is quite a different thing which I think OP is misunderstanding. The vast majority of the mass appears to hold together in a single mass and enables the very deep penetration that I've come to find is characteristic of monometal big game projectiles. The few petals don't seem to make up much total mass at all. If you look at how much mass typical lead core unbonded big game bullets like to lose and compare the numbers I think you'll recalibrate your choice of terminology. [/QUOTE]
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