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exploding bullets on impact...is this real or are people guessing?
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<blockquote data-quote="340Wby-4-everything" data-source="post: 1754208" data-attributes="member: 47425"><p>COHUNT was spot on. Bullet material and construction is key to the physics of it all. Think about it like this, a .458 WinMag using softpoints on Cape Buffalo bulls has been recorded numerous times to hit a shoulder and flatten, even not breaking the shoulder in many cases. I'm sure it hurt and I would not want to be on the receiving end, but it would not be a killing result. Do that with a solid and you will get at least some penetration. There is also a recorded case of a male lion being shot in the face, actually in the mouth with a .458 and a brown bear in the mouth with a .375 H&H both with soft points and hitting a canine tooth in each. Here is the clincher, neither broke the tooth or knocked it out of the animal. In both cases the damage was the tooth was cracked, but only marginally. I saw pictures of both. Were they glancing shots, perhaps, but regardless, Amazing stuff. I know we are talking about deer here, but we are also not talking about the power of a big bore. Lastly, there is no definitive way to determine the way two solid objects (bullet being of consistent composition and bone being of varying) will react when one strikes the other. The "explosion" if you will may result in the direction from where it came to one side or the other to continuing on its intended path. As you can envision in a 360 degree circle there are a lot of directions for fragments to proceed that are not in the direction of the animal/target. At least 180 degrees one could argue.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="340Wby-4-everything, post: 1754208, member: 47425"] COHUNT was spot on. Bullet material and construction is key to the physics of it all. Think about it like this, a .458 WinMag using softpoints on Cape Buffalo bulls has been recorded numerous times to hit a shoulder and flatten, even not breaking the shoulder in many cases. I'm sure it hurt and I would not want to be on the receiving end, but it would not be a killing result. Do that with a solid and you will get at least some penetration. There is also a recorded case of a male lion being shot in the face, actually in the mouth with a .458 and a brown bear in the mouth with a .375 H&H both with soft points and hitting a canine tooth in each. Here is the clincher, neither broke the tooth or knocked it out of the animal. In both cases the damage was the tooth was cracked, but only marginally. I saw pictures of both. Were they glancing shots, perhaps, but regardless, Amazing stuff. I know we are talking about deer here, but we are also not talking about the power of a big bore. Lastly, there is no definitive way to determine the way two solid objects (bullet being of consistent composition and bone being of varying) will react when one strikes the other. The "explosion" if you will may result in the direction from where it came to one side or the other to continuing on its intended path. As you can envision in a 360 degree circle there are a lot of directions for fragments to proceed that are not in the direction of the animal/target. At least 180 degrees one could argue. [/QUOTE]
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