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Berger for Hunting Bullets
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<blockquote data-quote="Buffalobob" data-source="post: 448054" data-attributes="member: 8"><p>If you are getting lung tissue blown out the exit wound then you did not get a pencil through.</p><p></p><p>At a range of 550 yards I put a Berger all the way through an adult boar hog and then still had enough bullet to make it through and exit an adult sow hog. Boar was dropped at the spot and sow had her pelvis broken. Sow crawled away and had to be finished with additional rounds. There is a certain mythology that has grown up around how Bergers perform on impact and that is not what I have found from my own experience. I find that the high SD ones penetrate extremely well.</p><p></p><p>Here is a picture of an antelope with a four inch exit wound. It ran about a hundred yards after being hit. My experience is that most times an animal's reaction can be traced to two things-- bullet placement and basic fundamental mammalian biology. An animal dies because you disabled its central nervous system. That occurs from direct trauma or oxygen deprivation. If death is not by CNS trauma then death is approximately a 2 minute process and never the instantaneous situation that many people like to claim.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n168/bufflerbob/Cyntia350yds1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I will say that once I have a bad experience with bullet performance I get leery of it and if it occurs again I will switch bullets. That is why I never shoot Hornady A-maxs. so, if Bergers make you worry then by all means switch to something that makes you feel better.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Buffalobob, post: 448054, member: 8"] If you are getting lung tissue blown out the exit wound then you did not get a pencil through. At a range of 550 yards I put a Berger all the way through an adult boar hog and then still had enough bullet to make it through and exit an adult sow hog. Boar was dropped at the spot and sow had her pelvis broken. Sow crawled away and had to be finished with additional rounds. There is a certain mythology that has grown up around how Bergers perform on impact and that is not what I have found from my own experience. I find that the high SD ones penetrate extremely well. Here is a picture of an antelope with a four inch exit wound. It ran about a hundred yards after being hit. My experience is that most times an animal's reaction can be traced to two things-- bullet placement and basic fundamental mammalian biology. An animal dies because you disabled its central nervous system. That occurs from direct trauma or oxygen deprivation. If death is not by CNS trauma then death is approximately a 2 minute process and never the instantaneous situation that many people like to claim. [IMG]http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n168/bufflerbob/Cyntia350yds1.jpg[/IMG] I will say that once I have a bad experience with bullet performance I get leery of it and if it occurs again I will switch bullets. That is why I never shoot Hornady A-maxs. so, if Bergers make you worry then by all means switch to something that makes you feel better. [/QUOTE]
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