Hollow Point vs OTM bullets

[archanfire]

Hello all. I seek an answer to a question that has bothered me long enough. Do Open Tip Match(OTM) rounds perform the same as hollow point rounds (on impact)? Visually they look the same to me, but I've found conflicting answers online and I don't currently have a way to test myself. I have some of each, but would like to know if I can treat them as equals or keep separated for different roles.

As always, I prefer first hand knowledge as I've already found plenty of conflicting arguments online.

Thanks

 

[P7M13]

I've never hunted with them, but if you put an OTM and Hunter model bullet side by side, I probably could not tell the difference.

 

[cohunt]

Hauge convention inadvertently had a little to do with it even though the US was never a party to it- it caused confusion over "hollow point bullets" so the term "open tip match" was coined.

An otm bullet "isn't designed to open easily on soft tissue at distance" yet a "hollow point" is commonly thought to do so.

It's all semantics--- it doesn't mean that an otm bullet won't expand, it just means it wasn't designed or tested to do so.

Most times an otm bullet has a smaller opening than a hollow point bullet ( but not always)

Otm bullets are designed as match bullets, hunting hollow point bullets are designed and tested for expansion on soft tissue---- many people have found otm bullets to be very good hunting bullets, it's just that the manufacturer never "designed or tested them for expansion"