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For the comic itself:
For the comment, hardcast is a hardened bullet alloy (lead bullets are heavy but soft; alloying it with other metals makes it harder) for when you need to get through something thick, like a boar, or a human being's entire fucking body. Not sure about thunderhead or CFA. 410 is a shotgun caliber. Dragon's Breath is a fun little round that replaces the bullet with pyrotechnics, while flechettes spray you with these ugly little things.
A bolo round is apparently a bolo but fired from a gun. I've never heard of it before today but let me just say that I love the weird things people come up with.
"Thunderhead" is hardcast or an alloy with a channel cut in both sides that causes it to do some gnarly stuff to soft tissue as the round hits and the tissue "splashes" through the gaps instead of displacing from the round. Kind of a more extreme version of a Lehigh Defense Xtreme Defense.
"CFA" is Controlled Fracturing Ammunition, like the G2 RIP. Think hollowpoint but the petals are meant to disperse into the target while the back of the round dumps energy.
"Bolo" isn't meant to tie something up like a normal bolo, it just allows the round halves to widen out and disperse energy across a wider area. Some people like them for shooting turkey necks, but those people are weird.
I figured it was like chain shot, just without a clear purpose beyond "Because we can"
It does have some value(like shooting a turkey neck to avoid lead-tainted meat), but it is a novelty or exotic round at the end of the day since it is far too powerful a round to be used for squirrel privateering. Also most woodland mammal cargo vessels haven't use sails for decades before the bolo round cartridge became viable.
It may be a bit of a joke round, but it wouldn't be very funny to find yourself at the business end of a derringer with one in the pipe.