Patent ID: 8752484

Claim:
A bullet comprising: a malleable core having a section with a first end and a second end; a jacket comprising malleable material surrounding the malleable core, the jacket having a first end and a second end, a wall, and an inwardly extending annular band embedded into the malleable core and forming a circumferential depression in the wall of the jacket, and which forms a mating circumferential depression in the malleable core; and a locking band surrounding a portion of the jacket configured to retain the malleable core with the jacket during use; and wherein the locking band is engaged between shoulders defined in the jacket fore and aft of the locking band, and wherein the locking band and jacket are subjected to swelling so as to radially expand the jacket and locking band so that the locking band is compressively engaged within the circumferential depression in the wall of the jacket, the shoulders of the jacket being in compressive engagement with the locking band.