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<blockquote data-quote="Earlybugle" data-source="post: 1559620" data-attributes="member: 13897"><p>Help me understand something. I've been a very successful, serious hunter for over 40 years. Yes I'm an old guy but I believe I've kept up with the times and current technologies - loving both old and modern cartridges, and a lot of the modern projectiles. Many years of analysis and experience taught me to match bullet construction with the game, AND also to the expected impact velocities. (impact velocities of about 2800 fps are an important threshold) What I don't understand is why for so many hunters, DRT is the model of perfection for hunting bullet performance? A quick death - yes for sure! A short blood trail - you bet! But why and when did it become acceptable to waste the off-side front quarter just so that you have no blood trail? I definitely understand and agree with the use of frangible bullets for truly extended range shots. I'm on board with that. I don't understand why so many of us are using frangible bullets in fast cartridges, knowing their show will be well inside of 200 yds, with the significant meat loss s an acceptable rice to pay for DRT, …. the apex of hunting craft. </p><p></p><p>Pssstt - by the way, DRT is easily achieved with fast cartridges using many of the more traditional bonded and partitioned lead core, and mono's at those closer ranges by putting the round a bit high through the scapula (and lungs).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Earlybugle, post: 1559620, member: 13897"] Help me understand something. I've been a very successful, serious hunter for over 40 years. Yes I'm an old guy but I believe I've kept up with the times and current technologies - loving both old and modern cartridges, and a lot of the modern projectiles. Many years of analysis and experience taught me to match bullet construction with the game, AND also to the expected impact velocities. (impact velocities of about 2800 fps are an important threshold) What I don't understand is why for so many hunters, DRT is the model of perfection for hunting bullet performance? A quick death - yes for sure! A short blood trail - you bet! But why and when did it become acceptable to waste the off-side front quarter just so that you have no blood trail? I definitely understand and agree with the use of frangible bullets for truly extended range shots. I'm on board with that. I don't understand why so many of us are using frangible bullets in fast cartridges, knowing their show will be well inside of 200 yds, with the significant meat loss s an acceptable rice to pay for DRT, …. the apex of hunting craft. Pssstt - by the way, DRT is easily achieved with fast cartridges using many of the more traditional bonded and partitioned lead core, and mono's at those closer ranges by putting the round a bit high through the scapula (and lungs). [/QUOTE]
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