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<blockquote data-quote="budlight" data-source="post: 12828" data-attributes="member: 2939"><p><strong>Re: 2 TX Deer with SGK\'s</strong></p><p></p><p>Charles Arbuckle - Your right I didn't word that very well. High speed small bullets that can go though 1/2 inch of mild steel at 200 yards are not really suited for broadside lung shots on sub 250 lbs thin skinned game. It just passes though without much damage at all. Without hitting heavy tissue and bone to absorb the energy and cause the animal to get knocked down. Like getting hit with a baseball bat. I've hunted in Shotgun only deer. 12 gauge slugs might go 1300 fps and they really don't cause much meat damage, but all the energy of the one OZ + slug getting stopped in 6 inches just cold cocks deer. I think that the massive hit just shuts down their nervous system. </p><p></p><p>[Qouted by Budlight]"I just don't believe that lung shots are good unless your doing long shots and you require a bigger kill zone."[end qoute]</p><p></p><p></p><p>Ok real question here as to the rational behind that.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Let's strech it a little bit and say the heart lung area is 10 inches high and 14 long. That's a 140 sq inches to hit. Head 4 X 4 inches 16 sq inches. Neck 3 X 14 inches at best 42 sq inches of target at 400 500 yards what is the "bigger kill zone" to shoot at. Is there something wrong with your logic? It's pretty basic sniper action - Man standing at 1000 yards away are you going for a head shot or a chest body shot.</p><p></p><p>The whole thing I posted above is typical game bullets are made to hold together and even if they double in diameter the hole is still very small. I hunt with a .458 and it's just another whole world of a bigger baseball bat.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="budlight, post: 12828, member: 2939"] [b]Re: 2 TX Deer with SGK\'s[/b] Charles Arbuckle - Your right I didn't word that very well. High speed small bullets that can go though 1/2 inch of mild steel at 200 yards are not really suited for broadside lung shots on sub 250 lbs thin skinned game. It just passes though without much damage at all. Without hitting heavy tissue and bone to absorb the energy and cause the animal to get knocked down. Like getting hit with a baseball bat. I've hunted in Shotgun only deer. 12 gauge slugs might go 1300 fps and they really don't cause much meat damage, but all the energy of the one OZ + slug getting stopped in 6 inches just cold cocks deer. I think that the massive hit just shuts down their nervous system. [Qouted by Budlight]"I just don't believe that lung shots are good unless your doing long shots and you require a bigger kill zone."[end qoute] Ok real question here as to the rational behind that. Let's strech it a little bit and say the heart lung area is 10 inches high and 14 long. That's a 140 sq inches to hit. Head 4 X 4 inches 16 sq inches. Neck 3 X 14 inches at best 42 sq inches of target at 400 500 yards what is the "bigger kill zone" to shoot at. Is there something wrong with your logic? It's pretty basic sniper action - Man standing at 1000 yards away are you going for a head shot or a chest body shot. The whole thing I posted above is typical game bullets are made to hold together and even if they double in diameter the hole is still very small. I hunt with a .458 and it's just another whole world of a bigger baseball bat. [/QUOTE]
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