WildRose
Well-Known Member
Well I can start with the fact that the use of FMJ ammo is illegal for hunting in my state and may others.If you can guarantee a heart or spine hit everytime why not just save money and use cheap FMJ ammo? At long range softer projectiles, preferably very heavy for caliber frangible types (not at all the same thing as hunting with varmint bullets!) give you way more wiggle room and emphatic killing power than most hunting bullets. Or at least that's what hundreds of hunters, many on this forum, have claimed to have witnessed.
It's not at all like a drunk waiting to get a dui. The person you blamed for their accubond's inferior long range performance had a bad had their "dui" and learned from it sounds like. This is their experience based conclusion.
The Accubond did not fail to perform, it wasn't put in the right place to allow it to perform as designed.
I'm not going to drag race with a Toyota Land Cruiser nor would I enter a hill climb with a Corvette.
I won't use a bullet not designed to penetrate the body cavity and expand or then fragment to shoot game because that's not what they are designed or intended to do.
It's not like we don't have a long list of bullets designed for hunting that perform as designed at ranges from point blank to a thousand yards to choose from so I see no reason to risk using them.
I spent most of forty years killing thousands of animals at all ranges with a vast array of bullets designed for different purposes and have found that most of them perform as designed when given the opportunity to do so.
There's just no good reason to use a target bullet for hunting with the choices we have available in the US or most of the world any of us are likely to ever hunt.