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Accubond failures?
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<blockquote data-quote="Rymart" data-source="post: 121632" data-attributes="member: 3688"><p>For clarification, the antelope was broadside and stationary on the first shot. I saw blood on its chest before the second shot was fired. It seems to me that it would have had to have been hit in the leg on the second shot. The wound channel stopped right at the bone, but did not break it. I probed and cut around for the bullet, but did not find it. I may have to put this one in my terminal ballistics X-files. I do, however, have a few misgivings about putting one of these bullets directly into the shoulder of a bull elk. Should I be worried about this? </p><p></p><p>I still have a doe antelope tag left to fill so I may conduct some more 'in-field' terminal ballistics tests. I used a 175 gr SMK on my buck. More on that later... </p><p></p><p>As far as the other shot went, as I said the bullet hit a rib on impact and shattered it. It left about a one inch wound on the inside of the rib cage. One of the three exit holes was larger than the other two. It broke a rib on the way out. It was approximately 1/2 inch in diameter from the inside of the rib cage. The other two holes were slightly less than a 1/4 inch in diameter and passed between ribs. There was very little damage between the exit wounds (as viewed from the inside of the rib cage). No bullet fragments were recovered. The exit wounds from the outside looked like a typical bloody mess.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rymart, post: 121632, member: 3688"] For clarification, the antelope was broadside and stationary on the first shot. I saw blood on its chest before the second shot was fired. It seems to me that it would have had to have been hit in the leg on the second shot. The wound channel stopped right at the bone, but did not break it. I probed and cut around for the bullet, but did not find it. I may have to put this one in my terminal ballistics X-files. I do, however, have a few misgivings about putting one of these bullets directly into the shoulder of a bull elk. Should I be worried about this? I still have a doe antelope tag left to fill so I may conduct some more 'in-field' terminal ballistics tests. I used a 175 gr SMK on my buck. More on that later... As far as the other shot went, as I said the bullet hit a rib on impact and shattered it. It left about a one inch wound on the inside of the rib cage. One of the three exit holes was larger than the other two. It broke a rib on the way out. It was approximately 1/2 inch in diameter from the inside of the rib cage. The other two holes were slightly less than a 1/4 inch in diameter and passed between ribs. There was very little damage between the exit wounds (as viewed from the inside of the rib cage). No bullet fragments were recovered. The exit wounds from the outside looked like a typical bloody mess. [/QUOTE]
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