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Originally Posted by Lord Commander Erus  To debate a point...
Solid core ammunition is determined by the projectile issued forth from the weaponry. A bolter fires a solid slug (contrary to your sentence fragment, it is not hollow) with a mass-reactive charge and impact sensitive tip. What this means is when it impacts something of a certain mass or solidity, the explosive inside the slug will explode and the slug will turn to sharpnel.
This is what gives the bolter it's massive power is both the size of the slug ( I believe the regular bolter is bigger in size than a .50 cal ammo) mass-reactive explosive. As the Munitorium Manual states, boltguns are essentially miniature missile launchers.
Also, technically nothing on the bolter is solid.The bolter itself uses (depending on pattern) electric fire trigger system, or traditional gunpowder. The bullet is over 75-80% slug (again, depending on pattern/variant). There is actually very little casing to the bullet, and what little there is contains a small powder charge used to eject the bullet about 1-2 metres from the muzzle, from there the explosives in the bullet itself take over and propel the bolter at a phenomenal speed approach Mach 2, and in the case of many Godwyn variants, exceeding such.
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Dead on. Doesn't part of it's destructive power come from the fact that it has a deterium core? I'm assuming deterium is something akin the uranium. And yes, I think the bolter is .50 cal or over. Comparing the size of the barrel to their body size it sure looks like it's over .5 inches in diameter.