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Lane Salvato

I suppose during heat of summer I've got too much idle time on my hands and spend it unwisely discussing projectiles with friends and neighbors. It's amazing how many people have bought hook line and sinker into the myth that monolithic copper projectiles are some type of death rays.

Maybe it's the never ending gel block videos on YouTube, or the marketing in gun magazines, but there are folks who have an almost religious attachment to all copper. No slight on them at all but they do have their place.

I say this with a bit of humor but I've learned that in a group of guys talking, if I say that a bullet which will shed weight makes more sense than monolithic projectiles in most cases, I'd better be ready to run for my life!

All I know is that I've killed so many deer I've lost count with soft point projectiles, and if hit correctly they don't take a step. I've watched animals dead run for a good ways when hit with monolith projectiles, in some cases after being hit twice. Proof is in the pudding. Monolithic has it's place, but it's not any death ray.