# Bullet bonanza!

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/bullet-bonanza/3849>\
**Category:** The Drawing Board\
**Created:** [November 8, 2013, 12:11am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/bullet-bonanza/3849 "2013-11-08T00:11:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Slax](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/slax/32/5385_2.png) [@Slax](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Slax)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 12:11am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/bullet-bonanza/3849/1 "2013-11-08T00:11:19Z")

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“[Eat this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow-point_bullet), [Dum-dum](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expanding_bullet)!” – Joe-Bill Harrington

Why fight zombies with FMJ when you can modify your lovely bullets with a simple, found-in-just-about-any-garage, file and/or drill? Cut down on the armor piercing aspect to get a boost in stopping power! Go the extra mile with mercury tips. Fancy! Or try a flint tip setup if you happen to find a stash of Zippo lighters and enjoy fireworks.

“Them things’ll make your head go POP! SPLAT!” – Arnold Billy-Bob-Joe Neckerson Esquire

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**Author:** ![Luissen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/luissen/32/1025_2.png) [@Luissen](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Luissen)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 12:22am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/bullet-bonanza/3849/2 "2013-11-08T00:22:54Z")

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merely putting a hole in the end of a bullet doesn’t necessarily make them expand properly. There are also videos of people making imbalanced handloaded bullets to demonstrate the effects, quite amusing.

I suggest that it becomes “Improvised Hollowpoint” with slightly more damage than the FMJs, less AP, less accuracy.

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**Author:** ![jimboblordofeskimos](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/jimboblordofeskimos/32/2_2.png) [@jimboblordofeskimos](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/jimboblordofeskimos)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 5:14am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/bullet-bonanza/3849/3 "2013-11-08T05:14:54Z")

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Hollow points are hard, however dumduming and fiddling with shotgun shells is easy, if a little dangerous. Ive used dumdumed bullets and shotgun shells with spreaders in them (we used caps of test tubes, kicked the pattern out by about 20%). Wounds from dumdums are definitely ugly.

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**Author:** ![FunsizeNinja123](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/funsizeninja123/32/118_2.png) [@FunsizeNinja123](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/FunsizeNinja123)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 2:29pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/bullet-bonanza/3849/4 "2013-11-08T14:29:18Z")

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I’m really wondering why we don’t have incendiary shotgun shells yet.