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  • Throughout the war, American troops would use a metal-jacketed round, just as the military had been using in other cartridges throughout the century.

    The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010

  • The rifle's gilding metal-jacketed slug skated over the bridge of the woman's nose smashing a crimson red hole into her forehead.

    Total War Ahern, Jerry 1981

  • But the sparks gave me hope, it meant that Larry was using full metal-jacketed slugs, the kind cops use for firing through car bodies and locked doors, and that made an awful sight cleaner wound than a mushrooming soft-nose.

    Fear is the Key MacLean, Alistair 1961

  • All of Kaman's high-temperature transducers are made with sealed, all laser-welded Inconel housings and use metal-jacketed, mineral-insulated cable.

    ThomasNet News - Today's New Product News 2010

  • This remarkable, and heretofore ignored, observation is hardly compatible with the passage of a single, full metal-jacketed, Mannlicher-Carcano bullet near the top of the skull, but might more easily have resulted from a hollow point or mercury bullet - or perhaps even from shrapnel from a bullet that was not counted by the Warren Commission.

    Signs of the Times 2009

  • These are however, not easy to see in the attached images and are best seen on the X-rays at NARA, This remarkable, and heretofore ignored, observation is hardly compatible with the passage of a metal-jacketed bullet near the top of the skull, an event that was suggested by the HSCA.

    Signs of the Times 2009

  • I sat down and opened Jimmy’s cold, metal-jacketed chart, almost cursing the irony of the Christmas carol on the radio: “Oh Holy Night.”

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Stories of Faith Jack Canfield 2008

  • I sat down and opened Jimmy’s cold, metal-jacketed chart, almost cursing the irony of the Christmas carol on the radio: “Oh Holy Night.”

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Stories of Faith Jack Canfield 2008

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