On 2015-11-12, Larry Jaques wrote:
On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 00:04:15 -0600, wrote:

A friend has the bullet that was removed from his dad in WW II. 8mm
German; it has a blue core. What would that core be?

Huh! Musta hit a Smurf on the way in.

I've seen really old copper-jacketed lead which does look sorta
blue. Not like blued steel -- more like a medium light blue chalk. I
figure that is the result of electrolytic corrosion between the copper
jacket and the lead core (which may be inside-out in the example above,
though 8mm German would be "hard ball" (that is, solid tip), since the
military consider a wound ties up more personnel than a kill does.

Obviously, his dad survived. I wonder what the range was? At
close range, I would consider military 8mm to be likely to punch on
through.

Enjoy,
DoN.

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