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Badlands Precision Bulldozer - performance on game?
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<blockquote data-quote="nralifer" data-source="post: 2589708" data-attributes="member: 94556"><p>I know it's a bit late to respond to your post, but your comment that it takes more energy to mushroom lead than it does to petal copper is spot on. The big mushroom really limits penatration, making quartering shots a poor choice for lead core bullets. In my personal experience with the Bulldozers, quartering shots at any distance are highly lethal because the Bulldozer penetrates so well. A Bulldozer entering the rear chest on the right quartering will go diagonally through both lungs, likely severing the vena cava, aorta and pulmonary artery besides creating a large temporary wound channel in the lungs themselves. Slow motion gel test video show that the Bulldozer will start to form the expansion cavity of the wound within 1-2" of penetration. Bullet travel through the lungs is less stressful to the petals because the lungs are the least dense tissue in the body. Muscle is more like ballistic gel, and bone is quite variable in toughness. Shoulder blade is thin, humerus is very tough and frontal skull is the hardest. Not at all surprising that petals shed after hitting bone, but the hard shank will continue through. The high BC of the Bulldozer assures the highest impact velocity at any given distance.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nralifer, post: 2589708, member: 94556"] I know it’s a bit late to respond to your post, but your comment that it takes more energy to mushroom lead than it does to petal copper is spot on. The big mushroom really limits penatration, making quartering shots a poor choice for lead core bullets. In my personal experience with the Bulldozers, quartering shots at any distance are highly lethal because the Bulldozer penetrates so well. A Bulldozer entering the rear chest on the right quartering will go diagonally through both lungs, likely severing the vena cava, aorta and pulmonary artery besides creating a large temporary wound channel in the lungs themselves. Slow motion gel test video show that the Bulldozer will start to form the expansion cavity of the wound within 1-2” of penetration. Bullet travel through the lungs is less stressful to the petals because the lungs are the least dense tissue in the body. Muscle is more like ballistic gel, and bone is quite variable in toughness. Shoulder blade is thin, humerus is very tough and frontal skull is the hardest. Not at all surprising that petals shed after hitting bone, but the hard shank will continue through. The high BC of the Bulldozer assures the highest impact velocity at any given distance. [/QUOTE]
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