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Berger close up on game performance
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<blockquote data-quote="kaveman1" data-source="post: 1742726" data-attributes="member: 104110"><p>Usually, you worry that a bullet will pass completely through an animal at short range. Ideally, a bullet will stay in the animal and release all of its kinetic energy in the vital zone of the animal, resulting in extreme damage to the vitals. Correlate this to pistol ammo, you typically use hollow points vs. ball ammo for this very reason. I have noticed that the Berger bullets seem to penetrate well prior to coming apart vs exploding on impact. This is good since the damage makes it through the entire vital section of the animal (however, deer sized animals have pass throughs at close range with Bergers as they are just too small to stop the bullet). Its the kinetic energy that does most of the damage to the soft tissue not the actual bullet itself. The bullet pieces do contribute to the damage but not nearly as much as the kinetic energy. The biggest issue is getting blood to exit the chest cavity to leave a blood trail on larger game animals. I would be worried more about having bullets pass through and not do enough damage because of the energy that leaves with the bullet upon exit. There may not be enough kinetic energy to create enough damage to cause the animal to die within a short distance. I have shot several elk out of a 7mm Rem. Mag. with the 168 grain Berger VLD bullet with tremendous success. Shortest shot 25 yards and longest shot 200 yards. I use Bergers just incase I get that long range shot as they have more down range energy than those bonded bullets, which results in more kinetic energy when the animal is hit. I used to use Speer 175gr Grand Slams and the Bergers did more damage and are more accurate with far more down range energy at long range.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kaveman1, post: 1742726, member: 104110"] Usually, you worry that a bullet will pass completely through an animal at short range. Ideally, a bullet will stay in the animal and release all of its kinetic energy in the vital zone of the animal, resulting in extreme damage to the vitals. Correlate this to pistol ammo, you typically use hollow points vs. ball ammo for this very reason. I have noticed that the Berger bullets seem to penetrate well prior to coming apart vs exploding on impact. This is good since the damage makes it through the entire vital section of the animal (however, deer sized animals have pass throughs at close range with Bergers as they are just too small to stop the bullet). Its the kinetic energy that does most of the damage to the soft tissue not the actual bullet itself. The bullet pieces do contribute to the damage but not nearly as much as the kinetic energy. The biggest issue is getting blood to exit the chest cavity to leave a blood trail on larger game animals. I would be worried more about having bullets pass through and not do enough damage because of the energy that leaves with the bullet upon exit. There may not be enough kinetic energy to create enough damage to cause the animal to die within a short distance. I have shot several elk out of a 7mm Rem. Mag. with the 168 grain Berger VLD bullet with tremendous success. Shortest shot 25 yards and longest shot 200 yards. I use Bergers just incase I get that long range shot as they have more down range energy than those bonded bullets, which results in more kinetic energy when the animal is hit. I used to use Speer 175gr Grand Slams and the Bergers did more damage and are more accurate with far more down range energy at long range. [/QUOTE]
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