Additional lectures

TYPES OF BULLET

1.Ball Bullets - have soft lead cores inside the jacket and are used against personnel only.
2. Armor Piercing Bullet - is a pointed, flat base bullet with a gilding metal jacket. It has a hardened steel
core of pointed, boat-tailed shape and fired at vehicles and other armored targets.

3. Tracer Bullet - contain a compound at the base similar to BARIUM NITRATES, which is set on fire when
the bullet is projected.
4. Incendiary Bullets - contain a mixture on the tip , such as phosphorous or other material, that can be
set on fire by impact.
5. Dum-Dum Bullets - this type of bullet were invented by British Ordnance force stationed at their
arsenal at Dum-Dum, India.

6. Wad-Cutter Bullet - a cylindrical bullet design having a sharp shouldered intended to cut a target
paper clearly to facilitate easy and accurate scoring.
7. Explosive (fragmentary bullet) - contain a high charge of explosive.
8. Frangible - designed to disintegrate into tiny particles upon impact.
9. Rifle Slug - which is used in shotgun.

Other types of bullet:

 Souvenir Bullet - is the term given when the bullet has been lodged and remained in the body.
 Bullet Migration - is when the bullet did not lodge in a place where it was previously located.
 Bullet embolism - is a special form of bullet migration when the bullet loses its momentum while
inside the chamber of the heart or inside the big blood vessel and carried by the circulating
blood to some parts of the body where it may be lodged. It may cause sudden loss of function of
the area supplied or death if vital organs are involved.
 Tandem Bullet - refers to two or more bullets that leave the barrel one after the other.
 Projectile used in a shotgun shell shots or pellets

Buck Shots- These are comparatively large lead balls formed in molds, without hardeners alloyed with
the lead.

Drop shots or Bird Shots -These are smaller lead balls which is formed by pouring molten lead
alloy through perforated pans of selected sizes located at the top of a shot tower.

PARTS OF SHOTGUN CARTRIDGE

1. Casing

2. Primer- battery type primer containing igniter

3. Pellets- number of lead shots contained in the case

4. Wads- paper designed to separate pellets from powder charge

5. Powder charge-gun powder

PRIMER

Types of priming mixture component

1. Corrosive - containing potassium chlorate w/c when ignited produce moisture causing the formation
of rust in the bore of the firearm. Other components are antimony sulfide and mercury fulminate.

2. Non-corrosive - designed for less chances of rusting by replacing the potassium chlorate w/ barium
nitrate.