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Energy or bullet diameter most important?
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<blockquote data-quote="Petey308" data-source="post: 2758228" data-attributes="member: 106845"><p>I agree with the main point you're trying to make. However, a heart and/or lung shot on its own does not kill the animal immediately, nor does it cause it to drop on the spot. Shutting down the CNS causes it to drop on the spot. Hitting the heart and/or lungs allows the animal to bleed out, which means loss of blood pressure, loss of oxygen getting to all the organs and tissues, etc, causing a stroke, etc, etc, etc.</p><p></p><p> Hitting lungs also causes asphyxiation, so even if the heart is still pumping, that blood is pumping out of the wounded lungs and oxygen is not getting into the blood cells.</p><p></p><p>So the animal is not going very far because it succumbs to the effects of the wounding.</p><p></p><p>Animals do not always drop on the spot when hit in the vitals and it doesn't mean shot placement was poor if they do not drop on the spot.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Petey308, post: 2758228, member: 106845"] I agree with the main point you’re trying to make. However, a heart and/or lung shot on its own does not kill the animal immediately, nor does it cause it to drop on the spot. Shutting down the CNS causes it to drop on the spot. Hitting the heart and/or lungs allows the animal to bleed out, which means loss of blood pressure, loss of oxygen getting to all the organs and tissues, etc, causing a stroke, etc, etc, etc. Hitting lungs also causes asphyxiation, so even if the heart is still pumping, that blood is pumping out of the wounded lungs and oxygen is not getting into the blood cells. So the animal is not going very far because it succumbs to the effects of the wounding. Animals do not always drop on the spot when hit in the vitals and it doesn’t mean shot placement was poor if they do not drop on the spot. [/QUOTE]
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