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Does a heavier bullet kill better?
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<blockquote data-quote="CNY Yote Hunter" data-source="post: 1735124" data-attributes="member: 109650"><p>Wish I had seen this earlier as I just started a thread about the exact samething. We must have literally been writing at the sametime!!! </p><p>My personal experience has shown the right round for the right animal is key.. 30-06 with a 150-180 grain projectile for whitetail imo is to much. Blowing holes through the animal resulting in the animal bleeding out rather than drt most the time. 243 using a 95 grain sst projectile has been almost everytime a drt situation on every whitetail I have taken. 7mm08 using 129 grain sst.. almost everytime drt but is more forgiving if you place the shot a little too far forward or back than the 243 would be. Imo to large of a round results in a slower expiration of the game. A projectile that blows right through the game does not transfer all of its energy so an unknown kinetic force is questionable. A projectile that penetrates deep enough to destroy vitals and does not exit the animal transfers 100 percent of the energy resulting in better knock down power, in my opinion</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CNY Yote Hunter, post: 1735124, member: 109650"] Wish I had seen this earlier as I just started a thread about the exact samething. We must have literally been writing at the sametime!!! My personal experience has shown the right round for the right animal is key.. 30-06 with a 150-180 grain projectile for whitetail imo is to much. Blowing holes through the animal resulting in the animal bleeding out rather than drt most the time. 243 using a 95 grain sst projectile has been almost everytime a drt situation on every whitetail I have taken. 7mm08 using 129 grain sst.. almost everytime drt but is more forgiving if you place the shot a little too far forward or back than the 243 would be. Imo to large of a round results in a slower expiration of the game. A projectile that blows right through the game does not transfer all of its energy so an unknown kinetic force is questionable. A projectile that penetrates deep enough to destroy vitals and does not exit the animal transfers 100 percent of the energy resulting in better knock down power, in my opinion [/QUOTE]
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