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Hammer bullet for short range bear hunting
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<blockquote data-quote="nralifer" data-source="post: 2756477" data-attributes="member: 94556"><p>Re-read the post. Half the petals were cracked. I lost them when we were quartering the animal. The bullet penetrated 30-32" with fully deployed petals. Bear dropped immediately. There is nothing wrong with the ductility of the copper. As far as tips inhibiting expansion, we have no evidence that that is a significant phenomenon with our tips either in gel or in the field. With plastic tips I have seen it first hand on a hunt. Pure speculation on your part. 10% gel is calibrated using a BB going 590 fps+- 30 fps and should penetrate 3.4" in 10% gel. How much penetration are you going to get from that BB in a Deer? Our tips, at those impact velocities, are ejected from the bullet with in 2" of penetration of 10% gel, a much more stringent test of expansion than in animals with hides, bone and muscle. The superior penetration of our bullets makes quartering shots though the chest very lethal because it dramatically improves the probability of tearing either the aorta, vena cava, pulmonary artery, heart and guarantees perforation and lethal damage to both lungs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nralifer, post: 2756477, member: 94556"] Re-read the post. Half the petals were cracked. I lost them when we were quartering the animal. The bullet penetrated 30-32” with fully deployed petals. Bear dropped immediately. There is nothing wrong with the ductility of the copper. As far as tips inhibiting expansion, we have no evidence that that is a significant phenomenon with our tips either in gel or in the field. With plastic tips I have seen it first hand on a hunt. Pure speculation on your part. 10% gel is calibrated using a BB going 590 fps+- 30 fps and should penetrate 3.4” in 10% gel. How much penetration are you going to get from that BB in a Deer? Our tips, at those impact velocities, are ejected from the bullet with in 2” of penetration of 10% gel, a much more stringent test of expansion than in animals with hides, bone and muscle. The superior penetration of our bullets makes quartering shots though the chest very lethal because it dramatically improves the probability of tearing either the aorta, vena cava, pulmonary artery, heart and guarantees perforation and lethal damage to both lungs. [/QUOTE]
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