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Berger Match Hybrid Target 215 gr for Hunting?
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<blockquote data-quote="Teri Anne" data-source="post: 2381473" data-attributes="member: 118816"><p>There will be much discussion and a lot of teeth gnashing over this topic and a million different thoughts on this topic. I will simply say this, why would you risk a possible trophy of a lifetime on an unproven bullet type that has no known expansion pattern and actually is not designed to expand upon impact. Match bullets are designed to punch hole in paper, not big game. Bullet manufacturers spend millions of dollars on research to make sure that their hunting bullets perform on the intended target. I'm not going to make any friends here, but why would you take a chance on an unknown instead of a proven. There will also be dissenters as I say that modern hunting bullets are just as accurate as match bullets even at long range. The difference is that when a match bullet hits it's animal target what it does when it enters all depends on where it enters, what it does after it enters and is relying on a perfect shot to take out the heart/lungs before passing through the other side. What happens if the bullet is a bit high, a bit low or a bit forward or aft of the perfect point of impact? I am a reloader, have been for some 50 + Years. I have never loaded a match bullet for anything but punching paper simply because the terminal performance is unreliable. Yes the hunting bullet may cost twice or three times the price, but what they do when they hit the animal is much more predictable. Hunting is all about ethics and to my way of thinking, which is contrary to a lot of very vocal people here is to do the best thing possible to the game you are hunting which is a clean one shot kill. The chances of that happening with a bullet designed for the animal you are hunting are much better than your own idea of an experiment which is probably hit or miss. Think ethical, be ethical and don't risk a once in a lifetime shot because you experimented with the wrong bullet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Teri Anne, post: 2381473, member: 118816"] There will be much discussion and a lot of teeth gnashing over this topic and a million different thoughts on this topic. I will simply say this, why would you risk a possible trophy of a lifetime on an unproven bullet type that has no known expansion pattern and actually is not designed to expand upon impact. Match bullets are designed to punch hole in paper, not big game. Bullet manufacturers spend millions of dollars on research to make sure that their hunting bullets perform on the intended target. I'm not going to make any friends here, but why would you take a chance on an unknown instead of a proven. There will also be dissenters as I say that modern hunting bullets are just as accurate as match bullets even at long range. The difference is that when a match bullet hits it's animal target what it does when it enters all depends on where it enters, what it does after it enters and is relying on a perfect shot to take out the heart/lungs before passing through the other side. What happens if the bullet is a bit high, a bit low or a bit forward or aft of the perfect point of impact? I am a reloader, have been for some 50 + Years. I have never loaded a match bullet for anything but punching paper simply because the terminal performance is unreliable. Yes the hunting bullet may cost twice or three times the price, but what they do when they hit the animal is much more predictable. Hunting is all about ethics and to my way of thinking, which is contrary to a lot of very vocal people here is to do the best thing possible to the game you are hunting which is a clean one shot kill. The chances of that happening with a bullet designed for the animal you are hunting are much better than your own idea of an experiment which is probably hit or miss. Think ethical, be ethical and don't risk a once in a lifetime shot because you experimented with the wrong bullet. [/QUOTE]
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