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The “other” hpbt bullets for hunting?
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<blockquote data-quote="bigngreen" data-source="post: 1664731" data-attributes="member: 13632"><p>I spent 6 years cutting wild game in one of the largest processing plant in MT, I've cut over 12,000 head of game and meat quality and amounts are huge factors for me, bullets with tips in them destroy more meat hands down, we frequently found the little plastic tips in the meat just under the hide on the entrances.</p><p>I LOATHED tipped bullets when cutting meat, the average loss is 8 lbs per hole with a tipped bullet, about half that sometimes less with a Berger being used normally and functioning normally, and less for a Barnes but they have their own weakness in the meat loss department.</p><p></p><p>The issue with a open tip match is you do have to think about it more, you can drive them beyond their ideal speed or your throat gets so rough your stress the jacket and you can get them to blow but this is not a bullet issue but an operator issue that one just needs to think critically about and solve it. I have loaded thicker jacket open tip match bullet to get more desirable results in a rifle that stressed jacket and it worked awesome with no compromise on meat or lethality.</p><p>I had to open up a LOT of animals before I trusted open tip match bullets but I did a lot of testing so I picked the right bullet for the launch and impact velocity then went and had bunches of guys shoot elk with my rifle so I could get a lot of almost controlled conditions to look at then I cut a lot of the animals too</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bigngreen, post: 1664731, member: 13632"] I spent 6 years cutting wild game in one of the largest processing plant in MT, I've cut over 12,000 head of game and meat quality and amounts are huge factors for me, bullets with tips in them destroy more meat hands down, we frequently found the little plastic tips in the meat just under the hide on the entrances. I LOATHED tipped bullets when cutting meat, the average loss is 8 lbs per hole with a tipped bullet, about half that sometimes less with a Berger being used normally and functioning normally, and less for a Barnes but they have their own weakness in the meat loss department. The issue with a open tip match is you do have to think about it more, you can drive them beyond their ideal speed or your throat gets so rough your stress the jacket and you can get them to blow but this is not a bullet issue but an operator issue that one just needs to think critically about and solve it. I have loaded thicker jacket open tip match bullet to get more desirable results in a rifle that stressed jacket and it worked awesome with no compromise on meat or lethality. I had to open up a LOT of animals before I trusted open tip match bullets but I did a lot of testing so I picked the right bullet for the launch and impact velocity then went and had bunches of guys shoot elk with my rifle so I could get a lot of almost controlled conditions to look at then I cut a lot of the animals too [/QUOTE]
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