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Hornady 208gr AMAX For Hunting
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<blockquote data-quote="Michael Courtney" data-source="post: 907627" data-attributes="member: 28191"><p>Sorry I can't answer all of your questions or post pictures or the video we have. Most of our work is covered by non-disclosure agreements, and I am often limited to discussing material that has been approved for public release. </p><p></p><p>I can say that one of the reasons why we like the 208 AMAX so much is that once it has slowed to velocities where it no longer expands, it tumbles reliably and creates a lot of wounding, both a sizable temporary cavity and a sizable permanent cavity. There is no impact velocity from 2900 ft/s down to 1000 ft/s where it fails to penetrate at least 18".</p><p></p><p>When hunting, I almost always aim for the shoulder (if available) on deer with any rifle bullet, because the odds of dead right there are so high. With bigger stuff, I prefer to aim behind the shoulder, not because I don't trust the bullet to penetrate, but because there's a lot more meat to ruin with a shoulder hit, and I don't mind a short tracking job. We've tended to hunt deer in thickets, swamps, and densely vegetated places where a 100 yard tracking job can take a lot of time and be confounded by insects and sub-optimal conditions. We've also done a lot of deer culling where killing 5-10 deer in an evening was common, and we preferred not to have to track them. When you have 7 deer to recover, skin, quarter, and get into the coolers on one summer evening, you like to eliminate tracking. Same for hog culling which we might be doing soon.</p><p></p><p>We've tended to hunt bigger stuff in wide open spaces where you're likely to see an animal fall even if it runs 100 yards first. Tracking is less of an issue if it's only one animal a day.</p><p></p><p>Never hunted moose.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Michael Courtney, post: 907627, member: 28191"] Sorry I can't answer all of your questions or post pictures or the video we have. Most of our work is covered by non-disclosure agreements, and I am often limited to discussing material that has been approved for public release. I can say that one of the reasons why we like the 208 AMAX so much is that once it has slowed to velocities where it no longer expands, it tumbles reliably and creates a lot of wounding, both a sizable temporary cavity and a sizable permanent cavity. There is no impact velocity from 2900 ft/s down to 1000 ft/s where it fails to penetrate at least 18". When hunting, I almost always aim for the shoulder (if available) on deer with any rifle bullet, because the odds of dead right there are so high. With bigger stuff, I prefer to aim behind the shoulder, not because I don't trust the bullet to penetrate, but because there's a lot more meat to ruin with a shoulder hit, and I don't mind a short tracking job. We've tended to hunt deer in thickets, swamps, and densely vegetated places where a 100 yard tracking job can take a lot of time and be confounded by insects and sub-optimal conditions. We've also done a lot of deer culling where killing 5-10 deer in an evening was common, and we preferred not to have to track them. When you have 7 deer to recover, skin, quarter, and get into the coolers on one summer evening, you like to eliminate tracking. Same for hog culling which we might be doing soon. We've tended to hunt bigger stuff in wide open spaces where you're likely to see an animal fall even if it runs 100 yards first. Tracking is less of an issue if it's only one animal a day. Never hunted moose. [/QUOTE]
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