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Announcing the New Hammer HHT
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<blockquote data-quote="Calvin45" data-source="post: 3064375" data-attributes="member: 109862"><p>That's a pretty telling chart. Definitely getting bullet upset and terminal performance to 800 yards with that, if that's accurate and it's over 1800…but more so I like your philosophy of a "inside 500" Point blank hold on hair death ray with that loading. The interesting thing to me is that at 500 yards it's still hitting with that impact velocity over 2600 feet per second. </p><p></p><p>That's a very significant number to me. I've learned a tremendous amount from reading all of Nathan Foster's online literature about cartridge and bullet performance, he is an authority figure on terminal ballistics in the same way that Bryan Litz is an authority figure on external ballistics and BC calculation, in my mind. </p><p></p><p>Over the course of having shot thousands of animals with all kinds of bullets and cartridges over decades he's made a general observation that, whether copper monos or tougher lead core hunting bullets (match ones are more violent and fast killing at low velocity), 2600 FPS IMPACT velocity is a kind of magical cut off point WHEN USING SMALLBORES (and 30 is still smallbore, I think the mediums technically start at either .338 or .358, that's when velocity starts being less essential to killing power it seems anyway, especially with the 35 and 37 cals) </p><p></p><p>Below 2600 fps with smallbores he observes you can still have awesome broad wounding and full penetration but there's just something about it that at impacts over 2600 fps the odds of an instant poleaxe effect without a CNS hit or collapse within 25 yards of being hit are just orders of magnitude more likely. </p><p></p><p>My comparatively VERY limited field experience has been in full agreement with that observation. </p><p></p><p>That's a sweet load you have there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Calvin45, post: 3064375, member: 109862"] That’s a pretty telling chart. Definitely getting bullet upset and terminal performance to 800 yards with that, if that’s accurate and it’s over 1800…but more so I like your philosophy of a “inside 500” Point blank hold on hair death ray with that loading. The interesting thing to me is that at 500 yards it’s still hitting with that impact velocity over 2600 feet per second. That’s a very significant number to me. I’ve learned a tremendous amount from reading all of Nathan Foster’s online literature about cartridge and bullet performance, he is an authority figure on terminal ballistics in the same way that Bryan Litz is an authority figure on external ballistics and BC calculation, in my mind. Over the course of having shot thousands of animals with all kinds of bullets and cartridges over decades he’s made a general observation that, whether copper monos or tougher lead core hunting bullets (match ones are more violent and fast killing at low velocity), 2600 FPS IMPACT velocity is a kind of magical cut off point WHEN USING SMALLBORES (and 30 is still smallbore, I think the mediums technically start at either .338 or .358, that’s when velocity starts being less essential to killing power it seems anyway, especially with the 35 and 37 cals) Below 2600 fps with smallbores he observes you can still have awesome broad wounding and full penetration but there’s just something about it that at impacts over 2600 fps the odds of an instant poleaxe effect without a CNS hit or collapse within 25 yards of being hit are just orders of magnitude more likely. My comparatively VERY limited field experience has been in full agreement with that observation. That’s a sweet load you have there. [/QUOTE]
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