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Berger bullet no expansion...why?
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<blockquote data-quote="earl1704" data-source="post: 1138733" data-attributes="member: 8946"><p>The idea that a bullet MUST hit a bone or the RIGHT tissue is silly. A bullet will expand or should at a given velocity if it hits tissue, ballistic jell or a gallon jug of water, shoot a milk jug full of water and recover your bullet. I doesn't matter what type of tissue it hits. Shot placement decides if you get a swift kill IF the bullet does its job and expands. Its why we don't use full metal jackets bullets while hunting we don't just want to punch a hole we want the bullet to dump its energy in the animals cavity. The military uses FMJ but the bullets are inherently unstable; when they hit a target they are meant to tumble to cause damage e.g. dump their energy, not just pass through. </p><p>As I said in my original post the shots I took looked like an archery field point was shot through the elk very little exterior or interior damage. I put up to six shots into this elk none expanded all were pass through, had they expanded and dumped their energy inside the elks cavity as the Berger claims they would and should it would have been a more ethical kill even without perfect shot placement.</p><p>Shot placement absolutely is important but other issues are at play here. Only machine gunners can (or should) claim "accuracy by volume" of bullets sent to the target.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="earl1704, post: 1138733, member: 8946"] The idea that a bullet MUST hit a bone or the RIGHT tissue is silly. A bullet will expand or should at a given velocity if it hits tissue, ballistic jell or a gallon jug of water, shoot a milk jug full of water and recover your bullet. I doesn't matter what type of tissue it hits. Shot placement decides if you get a swift kill IF the bullet does its job and expands. Its why we don't use full metal jackets bullets while hunting we don't just want to punch a hole we want the bullet to dump its energy in the animals cavity. The military uses FMJ but the bullets are inherently unstable; when they hit a target they are meant to tumble to cause damage e.g. dump their energy, not just pass through. As I said in my original post the shots I took looked like an archery field point was shot through the elk very little exterior or interior damage. I put up to six shots into this elk none expanded all were pass through, had they expanded and dumped their energy inside the elks cavity as the Berger claims they would and should it would have been a more ethical kill even without perfect shot placement. Shot placement absolutely is important but other issues are at play here. Only machine gunners can (or should) claim "accuracy by volume" of bullets sent to the target. [/QUOTE]
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