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Bullet selection is driving me nuts....
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<blockquote data-quote="cookvineyards" data-source="post: 2721773" data-attributes="member: 125056"><p>When considering bullets, you also need to consider where you generally like to shoot/impact your animal. If we are talking steel it doesn't matter. Different bullet designs have different capabilities. Your monolithic bullets like Hammer/Barnes etc are much harder and will perform totally different than your cupcore/bonded. Impact velocity is certainly important, but I'd say shot placement is more important. If you are a CNS shooter (someone that likes to run the high shoulder shot) the berger bullets and the monolithic bullets are going to probably be your ticket. The bergers need bone to perform best, I'd argue the monolithic bullets need that too. Personally I'm a vital/boilermaker shot placement kind of guy, so I use bullets like the accubond and elds with the plastic tip. I realize that a heart/lung shot won't necessarily anchor my animal In place like a CNS/high shoulder shot can, but I have a lot larger target zone and room for error IMO. Granted a mountain goat on a pinnacle a CNS is probably a better way to go to make sure it doesn't fall a thousand feet. So if I am ever lucky enough to go after a sheep or goat I'll change my bullets and go with something designed for the CNS. I have found over the years that bullets designed for the CNS will pencil more often with a heart/lung/vital zone shots and bullets designed for the heart/lung shot won't perform well on the high shoulder CNS shot. Now there are always exceptions, and certainly many cases where a bullet can cross over and be fine, so take my words with a grain of salt. Happy hunting, be safe and have fun out there everyone.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cookvineyards, post: 2721773, member: 125056"] When considering bullets, you also need to consider where you generally like to shoot/impact your animal. If we are talking steel it doesn't matter. Different bullet designs have different capabilities. Your monolithic bullets like Hammer/Barnes etc are much harder and will perform totally different than your cupcore/bonded. Impact velocity is certainly important, but I'd say shot placement is more important. If you are a CNS shooter (someone that likes to run the high shoulder shot) the berger bullets and the monolithic bullets are going to probably be your ticket. The bergers need bone to perform best, I'd argue the monolithic bullets need that too. Personally I'm a vital/boilermaker shot placement kind of guy, so I use bullets like the accubond and elds with the plastic tip. I realize that a heart/lung shot won't necessarily anchor my animal In place like a CNS/high shoulder shot can, but I have a lot larger target zone and room for error IMO. Granted a mountain goat on a pinnacle a CNS is probably a better way to go to make sure it doesn't fall a thousand feet. So if I am ever lucky enough to go after a sheep or goat I'll change my bullets and go with something designed for the CNS. I have found over the years that bullets designed for the CNS will pencil more often with a heart/lung/vital zone shots and bullets designed for the heart/lung shot won't perform well on the high shoulder CNS shot. Now there are always exceptions, and certainly many cases where a bullet can cross over and be fine, so take my words with a grain of salt. Happy hunting, be safe and have fun out there everyone. [/QUOTE]
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