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Help me build a 1 mile rifle...
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<blockquote data-quote="Buffalobob" data-source="post: 348880" data-attributes="member: 8"><p>Mark</p><p></p><p>I have explained how I get thorough life without a chronograph quite a few times on this forum for people who actually have a need to know. It is well documented.</p><p></p><p>As far as my opinion of bullet expansion at long range I will start this way. Back in the days before there were instant internet experts, everything had to be learned the hard way. This method was very hard on the animals and that's a fact. What I learned was that if you get too much expansion you will not get adequate penetration (this story has been related several times on this forum also and does not bear repeating right now either). When you are out at the limits of your rifle and bullet combination, if you have to choose then, you should choose penetration over expansion. You have to get into the vital organs. If you can get both penetration and expansion then that is great. There are reasons most states prohibit hunting with non-expanding bullet (except for muzzle loaders) and these are good reasons and certainly I am not advocating that those laws be changed. One should consider that being as my background also consists of having used a lot of FMJs in my early days that I am relatively familiar with their characteristics and am not worried about expanding bullets that don't expand. What I have advised is that if you are going to shoot at the margins of a rifle bullet combination it is good to get a big hole in the animal.</p><p></p><p>If it was legal and if there was a FMJ out there that had a higher BC and would get me better accuracy downrange I would have no hesitancy in using it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Buffalobob, post: 348880, member: 8"] Mark I have explained how I get thorough life without a chronograph quite a few times on this forum for people who actually have a need to know. It is well documented. As far as my opinion of bullet expansion at long range I will start this way. Back in the days before there were instant internet experts, everything had to be learned the hard way. This method was very hard on the animals and that's a fact. What I learned was that if you get too much expansion you will not get adequate penetration (this story has been related several times on this forum also and does not bear repeating right now either). When you are out at the limits of your rifle and bullet combination, if you have to choose then, you should choose penetration over expansion. You have to get into the vital organs. If you can get both penetration and expansion then that is great. There are reasons most states prohibit hunting with non-expanding bullet (except for muzzle loaders) and these are good reasons and certainly I am not advocating that those laws be changed. One should consider that being as my background also consists of having used a lot of FMJs in my early days that I am relatively familiar with their characteristics and am not worried about expanding bullets that don't expand. What I have advised is that if you are going to shoot at the margins of a rifle bullet combination it is good to get a big hole in the animal. If it was legal and if there was a FMJ out there that had a higher BC and would get me better accuracy downrange I would have no hesitancy in using it. [/QUOTE]
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