6.8 SPC/Geneva Convention?
In a special edition of Guns and Ammo it discusses all of the different military ammos that are being used in the desert. It claims that the 6.8 SPC uses a open tip match bullet so as to skirt the letter of the law. Does anyone know why an open tip bullet is not considered a hollow-point, and why this is allowed by the Geneva convention? Help, I'm confused!
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Jess Hoffman
Mooseyard Precision
LE Supply & Firearms
NRA Certified Instructor
Shawano, WI 54166
"My faith, my country and my family will guide me; nothing more, nothing less" -Gen. Tommy Franks
Jess Hoffman
Mooseyard Precision
LE Supply & Firearms
NRA Certified Instructor
Shawano, WI 54166
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Why would you give a s**t about the Geneva Convention if your at war with a bunch of suicidal rag-heads who want to destroy you and your culture. And hope to die doing it so that they can spend eternity with allaa and all his underage sweeties. 
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It's not designed to expand, where as hollow points are designed that way. The hollow tip is the result of the manufacturing process.
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It's the Hague convention (not Geneva), and what is banned is bullets "that are designed to expand". As the MatchKing is (supposidly) "not designed to expand" (even though it does so quite well) it remains a legal bullet. If you do a little "reading between the lines" you will understand why Sierra dosn't recogmend using MK's for hunting (as soon as they do, they become a illegal military bullet).
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open tip bullets (or match) bullets are designed for accuracy, not expansion. they cause an air bubble to form just ahead of the bullet tip to allow air to flow over air, not metal. (study it, it will make sense.) all match bullets are hitting paper or cardboard, thus expansion is not required. this is one of the reasons why match rifle bullets were added back to the list of 'ok' bullets for combat. the 3rd world,(being who they were) finally understood that it didnt expand.[:I] 0 -
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Like Tailgunner said it is the Hague convention not the Geneva Convention. And further direction on what Bobski says is it is called laminar flow, or in this case, separation of laminar flow. It is the same principle that makes a wing fly...and why dimpled golfballs fly farther than smooth ones. A thin layer of turbulence is created along the surface of the object flying through the air. Even though a wing needs speed to create lift, too much speed/lift then creates drag. If you destroy some lift at high speed then you destroy some drag.
As for the construction of the bullet, it was stated that the bullet was used for long range stability. The facts that they are frangible at high velocity and will expand at moderate velocity are simply by-products as far as the military is concerned. Their stated purpose was to attain a bullet that could be fired with consistency at long range...where the bullet does not expand.
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