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Cold temp affecting terminal performance of plastic tipped bullets
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<blockquote data-quote="Canhunter35" data-source="post: 1364496" data-attributes="member: 101677"><p>Interesting reading everyone's thoughts, but I guess no one else has really made that observation which is interesting. Not sure powder temp would affect it. I've shot a lot of deer with my 115 nosler ballistic tips at 3280 fps with imr 7828. It was cold when I shot my mule deer at 50 feet, minus 200 fps is still over 3k mv, yet the bullet punched making about 1.5" channel of damage. All the other deer I've hit it's like a bomb went off in the internals with 3-4" of damage in a channel. Lots of them over 200 yds. I don't think it's a velocity difference but hand skills may be on something about the physiology of the deer being different when it's really cold. I've also noticed this a lot on coyotes. Cold, nice little exit wound, hot, they have big old holes in them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Canhunter35, post: 1364496, member: 101677"] Interesting reading everyone’s thoughts, but I guess no one else has really made that observation which is interesting. Not sure powder temp would affect it. I’ve shot a lot of deer with my 115 nosler ballistic tips at 3280 fps with imr 7828. It was cold when I shot my mule deer at 50 feet, minus 200 fps is still over 3k mv, yet the bullet punched making about 1.5” channel of damage. All the other deer I’ve hit it’s like a bomb went off in the internals with 3-4” of damage in a channel. Lots of them over 200 yds. I don’t think it’s a velocity difference but hand skills may be on something about the physiology of the deer being different when it’s really cold. I’ve also noticed this a lot on coyotes. Cold, nice little exit wound, hot, they have big old holes in them. [/QUOTE]
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