American Shooting Journal – August 2019

(Sean Pound) #1

BULLET BULLETIN


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ailure, it is often said, is
the greatest teacher. In
the hunting and shooting
world, failures have inspired
some innovative minds. John Nosler
experienced bullet failure when hunting
a huge Canadian bull moose and that
incident led to the development of
the Nosler Partition bullet. Jack Lott
ended up further off the ground than he
intended to be when he was tossed by a
Mozambican Cape buffalo after his .458
Winchester failed to stop it, and that
led to the .458 Lott.

Similarly, the story has it that it was
another Cape buffalo bull that got his
adrenaline up and simply refused to die
that set Mr. Jack Carter to thinking he
wanted to develop a better bullet, and
he did: Carter was the brains behind the
Trophy Bonded Bear Claw, one of the
best hunting bullet designs available.
Carter was an IBM executive
who enjoyed hunting Africa – with
famed gun writer John Wooters – and
especially enjoyed the dangerous
game animals. Carter wanted a bullet
that would be utterly reliable, in

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both the expansion and penetration
departments, even on the thick-
skinned animals. Admittedly, he took
much inspiration from Bill Steigers
of Bitterroot Bonded Core Bullets,
but what Carter ended up with was a
unique design that would prove highly
effective as a dangerous game bullet.
There weren’t an awful lot of
bonded-core bullets on the market in
the 1980s, and the techniques used
to join the jacket and core differed as
well. Carter’s designs went through
some revisions – including changes

STORY AND PHOTOS BY PHIL MASSARO

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