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Originally Posted by hotrod150
I have concerns that a bullet designed to readily expand when shot out of a 2" barrel at 1000fps or less might possibly over-expand or even come apart if it encounters something like bone or even a stout leather jacket.
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Brassfetcher tested the Speer Short Barrel load in .38 -- shot from a snubby -- against 10% gel with a bone plate in front of it. Now, in an actual shooting it's unlikely for a bullet to have to pass through a wide, solid, flat plate of bone save perhaps for a direct sternum shot, but still, an interesting addition to the FBI protocols.
Upshot was that the Gold Dots clogged with bone and basically turned into wadcutters:
http://www.brassfetcher.com/38%20Spe...one%20Test.pdf
Not the expansion intended, but plenty of crush cavity causing penetration.