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<blockquote data-quote="5shots1hole" data-source="post: 1558641" data-attributes="member: 108843"><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 18px">For years I have gone by the rule that you want as much or all the energy in a bullet to be expended in the animal. So the bullet should just break through or stop just at the hide of were it would exit. This way you get as much out of the bullet as possible with full expansion. Now it's impossible to have one bullet with one load do it all. You can not expect a bullet to do the same thing at 50 yards as it would at 500. All we can do is load a round for what we expect. Where I hunt Whitetail deer my shots are </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 18px">usually 200 to 400 yards and on rare occasion 500. I have a 300 Win Mag and use a Hornady 150 grain spire point loaded to 3000 fps. At 200 yards it has 2040 foot pounds of energy, way more than needed. However on the occasion at 500 yards it still has 1090 foot pounds which is just a little more than the 1000 pounds they say is still enough for a clean kill. Yes I have shot one at about 75 yards. The bullet went right through the lungs with a 3/4 inch exit hole. It did not even go down when hit and ran a short ways then fell. Now at 300 yards they usually get knocked off their feet and don't get up. Hunting something bigger, a 180 grain spire point at 3000 fps, at 400 yards still has over 2008 foot pounds of energy. Almost as much as the 150 grain had at 200 yards.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="5shots1hole, post: 1558641, member: 108843"] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=5]For years I have gone by the rule that you want as much or all the energy in a bullet to be expended in the animal. So the bullet should just break through or stop just at the hide of were it would exit. This way you get as much out of the bullet as possible with full expansion. Now it's impossible to have one bullet with one load do it all. You can not expect a bullet to do the same thing at 50 yards as it would at 500. All we can do is load a round for what we expect. Where I hunt Whitetail deer my shots are usually 200 to 400 yards and on rare occasion 500. I have a 300 Win Mag and use a Hornady 150 grain spire point loaded to 3000 fps. At 200 yards it has 2040 foot pounds of energy, way more than needed. However on the occasion at 500 yards it still has 1090 foot pounds which is just a little more than the 1000 pounds they say is still enough for a clean kill. Yes I have shot one at about 75 yards. The bullet went right through the lungs with a 3/4 inch exit hole. It did not even go down when hit and ran a short ways then fell. Now at 300 yards they usually get knocked off their feet and don't get up. Hunting something bigger, a 180 grain spire point at 3000 fps, at 400 yards still has over 2008 foot pounds of energy. Almost as much as the 150 grain had at 200 yards.[/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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