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Not so happy with the Accubonds
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<blockquote data-quote="Pdvdh" data-source="post: 232725" data-attributes="member: 4191"><p>I think the AB functioned just fine from reading your account. The best way to ensure a DRT hit on an animal as small as an antelope would be to use a lightly constructed bullet at maximum velocity. Such a bullet will produce the lights-out effect more often than not, and also cause a lot of meat damage in the process. Explosive expansion will drop these smaller animals in their tracks. Sometimes even larger animals will succumb the same way with just an explosive hit broadside through the ribs.</p><p></p><p>If you want to eat the animal after shooting it, you might forego the DRT experience and track the animal for 50 yds after a hit with the more more sturdily constructed ABs. </p><p></p><p>Another good way to drop them in their tracks is to shoot them broadside through both shoulders. Again, you'll lose more meat to bullet caused damage than an equivalent shot through the ribs behind both shoulders. </p><p></p><p>If you really want them to drop in their tracks, wait till they turn broadside and shoot through both shoulders about 3/4 the way up from the brisket. Then plan on throwing away 50% of both front shoulders and some of the back straps. That should fold them in their tracks will still offering a pretty big vital zone target. </p><p></p><p>If they're close, shoot them in the head. It doesn't get any more dramatic than that, with a bare minimum of meat damage.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pdvdh, post: 232725, member: 4191"] I think the AB functioned just fine from reading your account. The best way to ensure a DRT hit on an animal as small as an antelope would be to use a lightly constructed bullet at maximum velocity. Such a bullet will produce the lights-out effect more often than not, and also cause a lot of meat damage in the process. Explosive expansion will drop these smaller animals in their tracks. Sometimes even larger animals will succumb the same way with just an explosive hit broadside through the ribs. If you want to eat the animal after shooting it, you might forego the DRT experience and track the animal for 50 yds after a hit with the more more sturdily constructed ABs. Another good way to drop them in their tracks is to shoot them broadside through both shoulders. Again, you'll lose more meat to bullet caused damage than an equivalent shot through the ribs behind both shoulders. If you really want them to drop in their tracks, wait till they turn broadside and shoot through both shoulders about 3/4 the way up from the brisket. Then plan on throwing away 50% of both front shoulders and some of the back straps. That should fold them in their tracks will still offering a pretty big vital zone target. If they're close, shoot them in the head. It doesn't get any more dramatic than that, with a bare minimum of meat damage. [/QUOTE]
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