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Long Range thick skin bullets
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<blockquote data-quote="Pdvdh" data-source="post: 855322" data-attributes="member: 4191"><p>Mark, </p><p>I've yet to experience a change in POI that compromises the use of the close range bear/camp/defense bullets on large game out to at least 200 yds. But I do fire the bullets at 2-300 yds to confirm the bullet's POI. This might pose more of a problem for smaller sized animals, but even on black tailed deer and Dall sheep, any change in POI has remained within the lethal zone out to 300yds. If my close range bullet did change POI so greatly at 200yds that it could cause a miss, I'd simply load another close range bullet that provided less POI change out of my specific rifle. Again, I've never had to do this yet, but there are many good controlled-expansion bullets available to select from for close range use. </p><p></p><p>With respect to Alaskan moose, the kill zone is so large that this should never be a problem, even it the close range bullet was loaded and fired butt-end first.</p><p></p><p>The primary factor I consider in when selecting my close range bullet is; which bullet will disable a big bear the quickest. Ballistic coefficient is insignificant at close range.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pdvdh, post: 855322, member: 4191"] Mark, I've yet to experience a change in POI that compromises the use of the close range bear/camp/defense bullets on large game out to at least 200 yds. But I do fire the bullets at 2-300 yds to confirm the bullet's POI. This might pose more of a problem for smaller sized animals, but even on black tailed deer and Dall sheep, any change in POI has remained within the lethal zone out to 300yds. If my close range bullet did change POI so greatly at 200yds that it could cause a miss, I'd simply load another close range bullet that provided less POI change out of my specific rifle. Again, I've never had to do this yet, but there are many good controlled-expansion bullets available to select from for close range use. With respect to Alaskan moose, the kill zone is so large that this should never be a problem, even it the close range bullet was loaded and fired butt-end first. The primary factor I consider in when selecting my close range bullet is; which bullet will disable a big bear the quickest. Ballistic coefficient is insignificant at close range. [/QUOTE]
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