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exploding bullets on impact...is this real or are people guessing?
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<blockquote data-quote="Orange Dust" data-source="post: 1786936" data-attributes="member: 92702"><p>You may also do everything right and have the animal decide to just take a step or turn while the bullet is in the air. Doesn't matter how good you are, Mother Nature can, and WILL throw you a curve. This is why many of us use guns that seem overkill for the game we are hunting. Seems like there is a barrier at about 600 yds that it takes a big gun to overcome if everything just does not go perfectly. I've had great success with a 300RUM at long range on Whitetails with 190gr ABLR, started at about 3300fps. The same gun will literally destroy one within its point blank range if you hit any bone to speak of. This year I've been hunting with a 28 Nosler with 162ELDX's. Couldn't get the ABLR's to shoot well enough with it. Not nearly as hard on them as the RUM up close, if you stay in the ribs, but the jury is still out on how well they will do at LR. If I Went Elk hunting again and was planning to shoot one far, an Edge is the smallest gun I would take. I have learned over the years that I just like to do all my hunting BEFORE I pull the trigger. I would not hunt without a controlled expansion bullet of some kind and also prefer bonded bullets to anything else I have tried, but I don't hunt LR with little guns. WildRose knows what he is talking about. Match bullets can work very well over 600 in a big gun. Problem is in reality most shots are closer and they can be very erratic at high velocity, and will usually come apart. You need a bullet that will hold together close and still expand at long range. This is why many folks that hunt long range with match bullets will also carry a load with a bonded bullet for closer shots. Usually takes a lot of tuning to get two loads to shoot close enough to the same for this. Too much thinking for me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Orange Dust, post: 1786936, member: 92702"] You may also do everything right and have the animal decide to just take a step or turn while the bullet is in the air. Doesn't matter how good you are, Mother Nature can, and WILL throw you a curve. This is why many of us use guns that seem overkill for the game we are hunting. Seems like there is a barrier at about 600 yds that it takes a big gun to overcome if everything just does not go perfectly. I've had great success with a 300RUM at long range on Whitetails with 190gr ABLR, started at about 3300fps. The same gun will literally destroy one within its point blank range if you hit any bone to speak of. This year I've been hunting with a 28 Nosler with 162ELDX's. Couldn't get the ABLR's to shoot well enough with it. Not nearly as hard on them as the RUM up close, if you stay in the ribs, but the jury is still out on how well they will do at LR. If I Went Elk hunting again and was planning to shoot one far, an Edge is the smallest gun I would take. I have learned over the years that I just like to do all my hunting BEFORE I pull the trigger. I would not hunt without a controlled expansion bullet of some kind and also prefer bonded bullets to anything else I have tried, but I don't hunt LR with little guns. WildRose knows what he is talking about. Match bullets can work very well over 600 in a big gun. Problem is in reality most shots are closer and they can be very erratic at high velocity, and will usually come apart. You need a bullet that will hold together close and still expand at long range. This is why many folks that hunt long range with match bullets will also carry a load with a bonded bullet for closer shots. Usually takes a lot of tuning to get two loads to shoot close enough to the same for this. Too much thinking for me. [/QUOTE]
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