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Badlands Precision Bullets thread - From BC to terminal ballistics
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<blockquote data-quote="nralifer" data-source="post: 2597516" data-attributes="member: 94556"><p>Your thinking is in the right place. As a bullet trasitions into a denser media, like what happens from air to gel or air to animal, stability starts to decrease at the same time the petals are deploying which then could steer the bullet depending on the symmetry of the deployment and whether or not it hits a bone head on or obliquely. Usually in the first 10" the bullet path is fairly straight. Most animals are 10" wide or less at the chest excluding the thickness of the pelt. Oblique impacts, also refered to as quartering shots, can have less predictable in-animal trajectories due to longer in-animal paths, but for copper bullets that expand reliably and quickly, these types of hits through the chest tend to be very rapidly fatal, requiring little or no tracking since bilateral lung damage is extensive, and the probability of hitting a major pulmonary vessel is high causing both bilateral tension pneumothoraces and massive intrathoracic hemorrhage.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nralifer, post: 2597516, member: 94556"] Your thinking is in the right place. As a bullet trasitions into a denser media, like what happens from air to gel or air to animal, stability starts to decrease at the same time the petals are deploying which then could steer the bullet depending on the symmetry of the deployment and whether or not it hits a bone head on or obliquely. Usually in the first 10” the bullet path is fairly straight. Most animals are 10” wide or less at the chest excluding the thickness of the pelt. Oblique impacts, also refered to as quartering shots, can have less predictable in-animal trajectories due to longer in-animal paths, but for copper bullets that expand reliably and quickly, these types of hits through the chest tend to be very rapidly fatal, requiring little or no tracking since bilateral lung damage is extensive, and the probability of hitting a major pulmonary vessel is high causing both bilateral tension pneumothoraces and massive intrathoracic hemorrhage. [/QUOTE]
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