303 Enfield round from black powder to cordite (early smokeless powder, although not technically "powder"), velocity increased. I'm a little late to the party, forgive me.ĭum Dum bullets are named after the Dum Dum Arsenal in Calcutta. (ie, I'd shoot someone with a 9mm hollowpoint round over a. However, if you're gonna shoot a living thing, it IS best to use ammo that likes to do as much damage as possible to the target. (Ed: Although 3 CoM hits would probably be bad news for anyone.I wouldn't expect them to fight on for very long or to live unless they got medical care right away.) Likewise, the characters being convinced that they had some sort of ultimate weapon which didn't prove out is common in real life as well.
I'd say the exaggeration in the movie was about the effects of the alternate ammunition people being shot and continuing to move/fight/live is pretty common. But still, nothing's written in stone and no two gunshots (or shoot-ees) are alike. If they were rifle bullets, dum-dum or not, it's a better bet to get a one-shot-stop with a center mass hit or to render a limb/extremity totally destroyed or useless. 45, you tend to be convinced that your target will disappear in a red puff if your bullet passes anywhere nearby, and that the spirit of John Browning will apparate and gobble down the remaining flesh scraps after the shot.) No handgun of any kind with any ammo will reliably put someone down without going into the brain. It's a round with the bullet cropped to a flat point, which is intended (as I understand ballistics aren't my field) to cause expansion inside and transmission of energy to the target rather than allowing the bullet to pierce through and exit the target. A "dum-dum" to my knowledge is pretty much an improvised version of a modern hollowpoint bullet.