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<blockquote data-quote="bigngreen" data-source="post: 661009" data-attributes="member: 13632"><p>I've fairly well moved away from fast bonded bullets of any kind in favor of softer but much higher sectional density bullets simply because that combination has proven so much better with elk for the chamberings I shoot. I found the bonded bullets had to be spot on with placement because the wound channel while long was not wide enough to affect much more than an 1.5-2 in area of lung and many times it was a bruise with a caliber hole in the middle which won't get you out of trouble. Since going to the softer bullets I see smaller entrance holes but the hole in the center and exit are 2+ in in diameter of blown out hole with more radiating rips, the high sectional density keeps it going while doing so much more damage. My bull last year was hit back at the liver with the first shot and he could not move up hill he was so sick and he could barely stay up, the wound channel from that first hit was large with radiating cuts in his liver and a bonded bullet would not have given me that performance. I shot him again through the heavy leg bone below the shoulder blade, it shattered this bone and blew one of the nicest holes through the forward part of the lungs I've ever had then exited just in front of the same bone on the of side, that hit I don't think I would have seen a difference between a bonded and non bonded jacket but my bullet has the sectional density to drive through the bone still. Two hits on the same bull, one I feel would have cost me some serious tracking if I had used bonded bullets and the other hit would have been GTG either way so for me I'm getting way more leeway with the non bonded open tip bullets and much more even wound channels through soft parts or bone.</p><p>If my choice was a low SD bullet I would go bonded every time but with the higher SD I'm digging non bonded in a big way!!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bigngreen, post: 661009, member: 13632"] I've fairly well moved away from fast bonded bullets of any kind in favor of softer but much higher sectional density bullets simply because that combination has proven so much better with elk for the chamberings I shoot. I found the bonded bullets had to be spot on with placement because the wound channel while long was not wide enough to affect much more than an 1.5-2 in area of lung and many times it was a bruise with a caliber hole in the middle which won't get you out of trouble. Since going to the softer bullets I see smaller entrance holes but the hole in the center and exit are 2+ in in diameter of blown out hole with more radiating rips, the high sectional density keeps it going while doing so much more damage. My bull last year was hit back at the liver with the first shot and he could not move up hill he was so sick and he could barely stay up, the wound channel from that first hit was large with radiating cuts in his liver and a bonded bullet would not have given me that performance. I shot him again through the heavy leg bone below the shoulder blade, it shattered this bone and blew one of the nicest holes through the forward part of the lungs I've ever had then exited just in front of the same bone on the of side, that hit I don't think I would have seen a difference between a bonded and non bonded jacket but my bullet has the sectional density to drive through the bone still. Two hits on the same bull, one I feel would have cost me some serious tracking if I had used bonded bullets and the other hit would have been GTG either way so for me I'm getting way more leeway with the non bonded open tip bullets and much more even wound channels through soft parts or bone. If my choice was a low SD bullet I would go bonded every time but with the higher SD I'm digging non bonded in a big way!!! [/QUOTE]
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