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Do larger calibers really compensate for bad shots?
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<blockquote data-quote="Gcan" data-source="post: 1706932" data-attributes="member: 102867"><p>I'm not sure, but I do know there are few substitutes for horsepower. I'm a believer in hydrostatic shock. Hydro kills. Period. I'd like to say after being alive 65 years and hunting for 59, I had never made a bad shot. I have. I have made some marginal shots that made no contact with anything immediately vital and had animals fall like shut off by a switch. Ive opened up animals shot broadside behind the diaphragm and had jellied lungs and organs pour out. Having said that, a bad shot with a 458 Lott that breaks a leg or paunches the animal is likely to have the same result as one with a 6.5 Credemore. </p><p></p><p>I do believe that a 30 cal hunting bullet weighing 200 grains going 2800 fps is a far better killer than a 140 grain hunting bullet 6.5 going 2900 fps, regardless of placement. </p><p></p><p>SIZE:</p><p></p><p>I have only one absolutely empirical case where bigger was better. </p><p></p><p>Years ago I had a 50bmg built for an article we were working on. It had everything you could want in a custom gun. It shot one ragged hole at 300 yards with 750 Amax hand loads. Having a unique sense of humor, I liked to take it to egg shoots for two reasons. (Until the banned 50s) The first was when I pulled the trigger and enough compressed air to float the Hindenburg was redirected right and left down the firing line, the bench guns with 2oz triggers would do really funny stuff. </p><p></p><p>Secondly, an egg is approximately 1-5/8" wide. With a .224 bullet and egg becomes 2-1/6" wide. But with a .510 bullet that egg becomes 2-5/8" wide. (2.5moa). So in this case bigger was lots better and lots FUN-ER!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gcan, post: 1706932, member: 102867"] I’m not sure, but I do know there are few substitutes for horsepower. I’m a believer in hydrostatic shock. Hydro kills. Period. I’d like to say after being alive 65 years and hunting for 59, I had never made a bad shot. I have. I have made some marginal shots that made no contact with anything immediately vital and had animals fall like shut off by a switch. Ive opened up animals shot broadside behind the diaphragm and had jellied lungs and organs pour out. Having said that, a bad shot with a 458 Lott that breaks a leg or paunches the animal is likely to have the same result as one with a 6.5 Credemore. I do believe that a 30 cal hunting bullet weighing 200 grains going 2800 fps is a far better killer than a 140 grain hunting bullet 6.5 going 2900 fps, regardless of placement. SIZE: I have only one absolutely empirical case where bigger was better. Years ago I had a 50bmg built for an article we were working on. It had everything you could want in a custom gun. It shot one ragged hole at 300 yards with 750 Amax hand loads. Having a unique sense of humor, I liked to take it to egg shoots for two reasons. (Until the banned 50s) The first was when I pulled the trigger and enough compressed air to float the Hindenburg was redirected right and left down the firing line, the bench guns with 2oz triggers would do really funny stuff. Secondly, an egg is approximately 1-5/8” wide. With a .224 bullet and egg becomes 2-1/6” wide. But with a .510 bullet that egg becomes 2-5/8” wide. (2.5moa). So in this case bigger was lots better and lots FUN-ER!! [/QUOTE]
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