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<blockquote data-quote="James Jones" data-source="post: 13071" data-attributes="member: 8843"><p>A bullet kills from hydrostatic shock , this shock is the energy that the bullets leaves in the animal "energy dump" , their has to be a balance between penitration and energy deposit , for instance shoot a deer with a 300Wby shooting a 150gr FMJ at say 3300fps , that load with create a pile of Kenitic energy around 3600lbs but the bullet probably will not expand much if any so this load has "dumped" very little energy. Now on the otherhand shoot the same deer with the same load but replace the bullet with a 150gr ballistic tip and the deer will probably get knocked over and not make another twitch due to the bullet "blowing up" and not exiting in this case it has "dumped" all 3600lbs of energy into the deer. Now the later sounds good but you probably would have lost the whole front of the deer.</p><p>So you want to find a happy medium between expansion and penitration , optimum would be having the bullet pass completly through with just enough energy for it to come out the skin on the off side , this way you would have dumped all the energy and made two wholes.</p><p></p><p>Personaly I like the new Hornady Inter-Bond bullets so far they seem to expand well yet still hold together and make a pass through shot. But it is hard to beat the good old Nosler Partition for a hunting bullet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James Jones, post: 13071, member: 8843"] A bullet kills from hydrostatic shock , this shock is the energy that the bullets leaves in the animal "energy dump" , their has to be a balance between penitration and energy deposit , for instance shoot a deer with a 300Wby shooting a 150gr FMJ at say 3300fps , that load with create a pile of Kenitic energy around 3600lbs but the bullet probably will not expand much if any so this load has "dumped" very little energy. Now on the otherhand shoot the same deer with the same load but replace the bullet with a 150gr ballistic tip and the deer will probably get knocked over and not make another twitch due to the bullet "blowing up" and not exiting in this case it has "dumped" all 3600lbs of energy into the deer. Now the later sounds good but you probably would have lost the whole front of the deer. So you want to find a happy medium between expansion and penitration , optimum would be having the bullet pass completly through with just enough energy for it to come out the skin on the off side , this way you would have dumped all the energy and made two wholes. Personaly I like the new Hornady Inter-Bond bullets so far they seem to expand well yet still hold together and make a pass through shot. But it is hard to beat the good old Nosler Partition for a hunting bullet. [/QUOTE]
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