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Bullet penciling question?
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<blockquote data-quote="Almondgrower" data-source="post: 1661163" data-attributes="member: 106582"><p>Greatwhitehtr: </p><p></p><p>In my 30 years of hunting , the ONLY Bullets I have seen fail are target Bullets that friends were using . I took a nosler accubond to the extreme one time and I normally would never take a shoulder shot on a big bull elk but a buddy hit it and broke a rear leg low . After tracking it ,I finally found him but he was standing rite on a ledge of a massive deep rocky timber filled canyon that we would have a terrible time getting to him let alone using horses . I needed to anchor him rite there . I shot him with my 30/378 and a 150g accubond [USER=72874]@3700[/USER] FPS . The bullet blew apart both front shoulders sending baseball size chunks of bone from the on side threw the heart and lungs and a perfect quarter size exit hole dropping the bull rite in his tracks . That is about as Extreme as it gets to test a hunting bullet . All I'm saying is a hunting bullet gives you a wider performance range for unintended events then a target bullet ( may ) . I was somewhat disappointed about a eldx that I shot a deer with tho ..... went threw and lodged in a dirt bank 4' behind , I expected a mushroom of some sort but the lead core was about 6" deeper and the jacket ( like a cup with nothing in it ) was closer to the surface. Vary good chance dirt caused it but I have had friends had similar eldm Bullets do the same thing when recovered in a animal . Worst case is my point hopefully giving the best chance for a clean dispatch , I agree , dead is dead when u hit the vitals but that's shot is not guaranteed . It's up to us as hunters and shooters to know the limits of our setup . A copper bullet shot into a animal @ 1000fps .....definitely a hunting bullet failure for sure</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Almondgrower, post: 1661163, member: 106582"] Greatwhitehtr: In my 30 years of hunting , the ONLY Bullets I have seen fail are target Bullets that friends were using . I took a nosler accubond to the extreme one time and I normally would never take a shoulder shot on a big bull elk but a buddy hit it and broke a rear leg low . After tracking it ,I finally found him but he was standing rite on a ledge of a massive deep rocky timber filled canyon that we would have a terrible time getting to him let alone using horses . I needed to anchor him rite there . I shot him with my 30/378 and a 150g accubond [USER=72874]@3700[/USER] FPS . The bullet blew apart both front shoulders sending baseball size chunks of bone from the on side threw the heart and lungs and a perfect quarter size exit hole dropping the bull rite in his tracks . That is about as Extreme as it gets to test a hunting bullet . All I’m saying is a hunting bullet gives you a wider performance range for unintended events then a target bullet ( may ) . I was somewhat disappointed about a eldx that I shot a deer with tho ..... went threw and lodged in a dirt bank 4’ behind , I expected a mushroom of some sort but the lead core was about 6” deeper and the jacket ( like a cup with nothing in it ) was closer to the surface. Vary good chance dirt caused it but I have had friends had similar eldm Bullets do the same thing when recovered in a animal . Worst case is my point hopefully giving the best chance for a clean dispatch , I agree , dead is dead when u hit the vitals but that’s shot is not guaranteed . It’s up to us as hunters and shooters to know the limits of our setup . A copper bullet shot into a animal @ 1000fps .....definitely a hunting bullet failure for sure [/QUOTE]
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