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Hydrostatic shock, what's your opinion?
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<blockquote data-quote="RockyMtnMT" data-source="post: 340728" data-attributes="member: 7999"><p>I have experienced the drt quite a few times. Most all of them showed damage to the spine. One with a GS bullet that did not show spine damage, and shot was quite a ways away from the spine. </p><p> </p><p>I experienced the drt with almost all of the animals that I shot with 30-378 running Hawk bullets. The 220g semi spitzer. Every animal that I hit in the middle dropped. Everything from antelope to mule deer. Not one exited, from 50yrds to 300yrds. I shot an antelope dead center thru the gut, it dropped. I stopped using this bullet because of the massive meat damage and the accuracy seemed to drop off drastically after 300yrds.</p><p> </p><p>I am in the camp of permanent wound channel/blood loss. I never really had a good explanation of how these animals died, other than they were hit with a large bullet going quite fast that did not exit. I'll buy the stroke theory. Blood pressure instantly too high for organs to cope.</p><p> </p><p>I will say this. When I shot animals in the lung cavity with the Hawk bullets, the paunch was almost always blown up. I never found bullets, and made the assumption that they completely fragmented. I know that I was running them faster than they were designed to go. I ran the 220g bullets at 3100fps mv. This may also have something to do with the lack of accuracy beyond 300yrds. It was after moving on to other products that I got interested in how they work and shooting long range.</p><p> </p><p>Good thread,</p><p> </p><p>Steve</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RockyMtnMT, post: 340728, member: 7999"] I have experienced the drt quite a few times. Most all of them showed damage to the spine. One with a GS bullet that did not show spine damage, and shot was quite a ways away from the spine. I experienced the drt with almost all of the animals that I shot with 30-378 running Hawk bullets. The 220g semi spitzer. Every animal that I hit in the middle dropped. Everything from antelope to mule deer. Not one exited, from 50yrds to 300yrds. I shot an antelope dead center thru the gut, it dropped. I stopped using this bullet because of the massive meat damage and the accuracy seemed to drop off drastically after 300yrds. I am in the camp of permanent wound channel/blood loss. I never really had a good explanation of how these animals died, other than they were hit with a large bullet going quite fast that did not exit. I'll buy the stroke theory. Blood pressure instantly too high for organs to cope. I will say this. When I shot animals in the lung cavity with the Hawk bullets, the paunch was almost always blown up. I never found bullets, and made the assumption that they completely fragmented. I know that I was running them faster than they were designed to go. I ran the 220g bullets at 3100fps mv. This may also have something to do with the lack of accuracy beyond 300yrds. It was after moving on to other products that I got interested in how they work and shooting long range. Good thread, Steve [/QUOTE]
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