I tried to educate myself on dumdum bullets, as it is mentioned with Krags. If I got this right, dumdum bullets are soft nosed bullets that expand and cause greater tissue damage. In the era of the Krag this type of bullet became the norm for the hunting world with the new high velocity bullets as it could down an animal more affectively and "humanely". Still used today, and often required for hunting. Full metal jacket bullets were dictated by the Hague Conference.

Dumdum bullets are named from where they were invented, the arsenal in Dum Dum of northern India. Here is a period article that explains most of this. I suppose a lot of the military buffs knew all this. But it is the first time for me knowing this.

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