Copper/Non-Lead Core Bullets & Ammo

Hornady copper expanding bullets are engineered for hunters who demand uncompromising terminal performance on tough game. The monolithic copper construction delivers exceptionally high weight retention, often 95%+, ensuring the bullet stays intact through heavy hide, dense muscle, and bone. Upon impact, these bullets reliably expand to create devastating wound channels while still penetrating deep enough to reach vital organs from challenging angles.

COPPER/NON-LEAD CORE Bullets FOR GAME Animals

CX:

The CX® (Copper alloy eXpanding) bullet from Hornady represents a solid breakthrough in monolithic bullet performance, delivering extended range capability, greater accuracy, deep penetration, and up to 95% weight retention. Its one-piece copper alloy construction will not separate, providing devastating terminal performance on medium- to large-game animals while remaining fully California compliant and suitable for other nontraditional bullet requirements. An advanced Heat Shield® tip made from heat-resistant polymer maintains a consistently high ballistic coefficient throughout the bullet’s entire flight path and ensures a perfect meplat for exceptional bullet-to-bullet and lot-to-lot consistency. Optimized groove geometry further enhances aerodynamic performance while reducing bearing surface and fouling, making CX® the most advanced monolithic hunting bullet available today.

MonoFlex:

A solid option for your lever gun.

By combining the technologies of the original CX® and FTX® bullet design, the MonoFlex® bullet gives lever gun shooters another option. Constructed of a copper alloy, MonoFlex® bullets offer hunters a solid that won't separate, and when recovered, retains 95% of its original weight. Copper alloy differs from solid copper in that it is harder, tougher and does not foul or increase pressure the way solid copper bullets do.

Upon impact, the patented Flex Tip® design initiates immediate expansion, even at the lower velocities often encountered in mid to long range lever gun shooting situations. Its deep penetration and high weight retention combine to produce yet another accurate, deadly and dependable choice for lever gun hunters.

ECX (This product is for export only) :

The ECX™ (Extreme Copper alloy eXpanding) bullet from Hornady represents the pinnacle of monolithic bullet performance for our international customers. Its optimized design offers high levels of accuracy across a wide variety of chamber designs and twist rates. Particular attention was given to ensure excellent compatibility with traditional European chamber dimensions.

COPPER/NON-LEAD CORE Bullets FOR Varmint

NTX:

Hornady® NTX® bullets provide peerless performance with a non-traditional core material that combines accuracy, reliability and Hornady® quality for use in areas with restrictions on the use of traditional bullets.

Hornady® has made lead core bullets since 1949. Lead is, and always will be an excellent core material that provides density and hard-hitting energy to a vast array of bullets. However, there are regulations in some areas that restrict the use of lead in bullets.

The non-lead core of the NTX,® which is crafted from a frangible copper alloy, features a small space between it and the shaft of the hard polymer tip, just like the V-MAX.® This specially designed cavity allows the copper-colored tip and shaft to build up increased energy upon impact with the target before driving into the bullet's core with increased force, initiating near-instant expansion and explosive fragmentation.

Copper/Non-Lead Core Hunting Ammo

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