The amount of explosive you could fit inside a bullet seems fairly small. You could probably do more damage by selecting a hollow-point of frangible round, propelled at higher velocity.
Once again, stellar reporting by the American Shooting Journal.
Incendiary rounds were first used in World War I, not II.
What’s feared more than a Sniper Lurking in the Darkness?
A liberal?
plink
Ninjas...
I don't know, the sun going out and the whole asteroid thing are both pretty high on my list.
Welfare check day in the ER.
Nancy Pelosi on a bender.
A stampede at Chucky Cheese
A fart that comes out wet?
Maybe Patriots melting out (lead bullets) justice to tyrants on Pain of Death enmasse? Keep your powder dry.
Kinda puts a new twist or lack thereof on the German-Russian sniper battle movie about 12-15 years ago - they must have failed to write those cute little bullets into the script.
IRS agents.
Videos of Muslims in Afghanistan cartwheeling upon impact of a long range 50 cal sniper rifle kind of makes the exploding ammo moot....depleted uranium slugs from an A-10 cut through a tank and generate so much heat the material turns into beads of molten, high speed metal and purees those inside.
***Exploding rounds have been around since World War II. ***
Actually, they were first tried in 1861-1865 Civil War.
https://www.metaldetectingclubla.com/exploding-gardiner-bullet
Our military uses incendiary rounds all the time.
A Communist lurking in Government.
What do I win?
The 1899 Hague Treaty ban "of bullets which expand or flatten easily in the human body" was made completely irrelevant because of events following the invention of smokeless powder and should have been stricken more than a century ago.
Smokeless powder drives projectiles to significantly higher velocities than black powder did, which necessitated the switch to more streamlined bullets (known as "spire-point" or "spitzer") to take advantage to the potential for greater range that the higher velocity offered. The effect of the streamlining was to create a bullet with significantly greater static linear instability than rounder-nosed black powder projectiles.
The greater static instability made the new projectiles highly prone to tumbling on impact. Combined with higher velocity (= greater hydrostatic shock), the terminal effects of these new rounds was every bit as devastating as the so-called "dum-dum" bullets, even when using full metal jacketed "ball" ammunition.
So that particular aspect of 1899 Hague was made completely irrelevant and should have been deleted.