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28 Nosler - Best Hunting Bullets?
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<blockquote data-quote="bigngreen" data-source="post: 1404931" data-attributes="member: 13632"><p>Having frag in your meat is a function of shot placement and meat preparation not a bullet function. Every bullet that expands and sheds weight has the ability to put frag into meat, our bodies do not metabolize lead frag it has to be in an extremely fine form that we breath or that can directly enter the blood stream. We should be way more concerned about the environment and lead contamination the animal was in than the bullet. Other animals have digestive system that will break down the lead like in the condors case.</p><p>I cut wild game commercially for years and we ran plates in our grinders that would take out anything hard or even very stiff stuff and you would never find lead in the meat we cut, you would find copper though which worries me more as a meat cutter than anything else. Lead frag tracks along the bullet path so if your bullet goes through the vitals behind the shoulder the frag is in the body cavity, clean up a very small entrance area, there may be a little around the exit also, very easy to clean up. Lead frag is extremely easy to clean up, copper frag is extremely hard to track and find in meat. </p><p>I started shooting Berger's for meat quality and have been extremely happy but I evaluate each bullet regardless of manufacture on it's in merits, there are Berger's I don't like. I pick my shot placement based on meat quality and lethality and am very OK with passing a shot. </p><p>I shoot Hammers also because they are lethal as hell compared to other copper bullets, I can put them into more shot positions and that is why in some cases I use them closer, extreme lethality with some ruggedness. I do need BC also, I know some will down play BC or over play it also but it's easy to run the numbers and get a reasonable idea of the best impact velocities and ranges based on that for each bullet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bigngreen, post: 1404931, member: 13632"] Having frag in your meat is a function of shot placement and meat preparation not a bullet function. Every bullet that expands and sheds weight has the ability to put frag into meat, our bodies do not metabolize lead frag it has to be in an extremely fine form that we breath or that can directly enter the blood stream. We should be way more concerned about the environment and lead contamination the animal was in than the bullet. Other animals have digestive system that will break down the lead like in the condors case. I cut wild game commercially for years and we ran plates in our grinders that would take out anything hard or even very stiff stuff and you would never find lead in the meat we cut, you would find copper though which worries me more as a meat cutter than anything else. Lead frag tracks along the bullet path so if your bullet goes through the vitals behind the shoulder the frag is in the body cavity, clean up a very small entrance area, there may be a little around the exit also, very easy to clean up. Lead frag is extremely easy to clean up, copper frag is extremely hard to track and find in meat. I started shooting Berger's for meat quality and have been extremely happy but I evaluate each bullet regardless of manufacture on it's in merits, there are Berger's I don't like. I pick my shot placement based on meat quality and lethality and am very OK with passing a shot. I shoot Hammers also because they are lethal as hell compared to other copper bullets, I can put them into more shot positions and that is why in some cases I use them closer, extreme lethality with some ruggedness. I do need BC also, I know some will down play BC or over play it also but it's easy to run the numbers and get a reasonable idea of the best impact velocities and ranges based on that for each bullet. [/QUOTE]
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