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<blockquote data-quote="Buffalobob" data-source="post: 74882" data-attributes="member: 8"><p>I grew up fairly poor by todays standards and if we had meat for the evening meal oftentimes it was what I could catch or kill. Behind the shoulder with a pass through whether bullet or arrow is what I prefer to minimize meat damage. If it is quartering then I will break the shoulder to get into the chest cavity if using a gun, with a bow I will try to somehow work around the shoulder. </p><p>I have shot deer through the chest with small caliber partition bullets and seen them run some considerable distance. This doesn't bother me other than the one occaission that it ran far enough to wind up shot by another hunter. I switched back up to the 240Wby after that being as that did bother me. Doing a lot of bowhunting -tracking is just part of the hunt.</p><p></p><p>In the end because one cannot control the angle presented by the animal and because I will take a quartering shot if that is what is available, I try to select bullets that will break through the bones and get into the chest cavity at a minumum and I prefer it to exit but that is not mandatory. My experience is that hydrostatic shock (other than on the skull) is less and less important as the animal becomes bigger and bigger. By the time you get into 1000# animals you can leave the concussive force theory at home- bullet energy is devoted to getting through thick hides, breaking large bones and getting into the chest cavity. As somebody said often times the bullets will be found under the off side hide which is elastic and "catches" bullets.</p><p></p><p>If nobody is shooting at me or attempting to eat me then I do not go looking to deliberately break any bones although I try to shoot bullets that will break their way through what ever and exit but the exit part is secondary to getting into the chest cavity.</p><p></p><p>P.S. There is the goat shooting experiment that was carried out in Austria( I believe )on pistol bullets if you are into penetration of flat nosed versus hollow point pistol bullets.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Buffalobob, post: 74882, member: 8"] I grew up fairly poor by todays standards and if we had meat for the evening meal oftentimes it was what I could catch or kill. Behind the shoulder with a pass through whether bullet or arrow is what I prefer to minimize meat damage. If it is quartering then I will break the shoulder to get into the chest cavity if using a gun, with a bow I will try to somehow work around the shoulder. I have shot deer through the chest with small caliber partition bullets and seen them run some considerable distance. This doesn't bother me other than the one occaission that it ran far enough to wind up shot by another hunter. I switched back up to the 240Wby after that being as that did bother me. Doing a lot of bowhunting -tracking is just part of the hunt. In the end because one cannot control the angle presented by the animal and because I will take a quartering shot if that is what is available, I try to select bullets that will break through the bones and get into the chest cavity at a minumum and I prefer it to exit but that is not mandatory. My experience is that hydrostatic shock (other than on the skull) is less and less important as the animal becomes bigger and bigger. By the time you get into 1000# animals you can leave the concussive force theory at home- bullet energy is devoted to getting through thick hides, breaking large bones and getting into the chest cavity. As somebody said often times the bullets will be found under the off side hide which is elastic and "catches" bullets. If nobody is shooting at me or attempting to eat me then I do not go looking to deliberately break any bones although I try to shoot bullets that will break their way through what ever and exit but the exit part is secondary to getting into the chest cavity. P.S. There is the goat shooting experiment that was carried out in Austria( I believe )on pistol bullets if you are into penetration of flat nosed versus hollow point pistol bullets. [/QUOTE]
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