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Hammer bullet for short range bear hunting
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<blockquote data-quote="nralifer" data-source="post: 2818623" data-attributes="member: 94556"><p>All I can tell you is that my experience with Barnes was at times good and others not so good. Since I could not get consistent results from either Barnes or lead core and a high BC in the same bullet, when I had the chance I decided to " roll my own". This led to a rather long period of trial and error period of research that not only vastly improved the BC issue but also the consistency issue. Gel testing monos and ours clearly revealed the answer to inconsistent behavior after impact. By marrying high BC to reliable bullet expansion we had a basic design that could be applied to any caliber bullet. The only compromise we had to deal with is the fact that copper is less dense than lead, a handicap that really only exists in the .224 caliber and smaller. Generalizing about copper monos to our bullets is inaccurate, as is the notion that heavy lead core bullets in a given caliber penetrate better than our lighter for caliber bullets. I have one report of a 5 ft penetration of our 275 gr 338 SBD2 bullet into a charging Grizzly Bear after being hit in the head with the bullet having gone through the skull at 35 yds or so, and several accounts of both complete longitudinal pass throughs in Moose and Elk. That is why we advocate for quartering shots being highly lethal because our bullets will penetrate in an expanded state to make that possible.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nralifer, post: 2818623, member: 94556"] All I can tell you is that my experience with Barnes was at times good and others not so good. Since I could not get consistent results from either Barnes or lead core and a high BC in the same bullet, when I had the chance I decided to “ roll my own”. This led to a rather long period of trial and error period of research that not only vastly improved the BC issue but also the consistency issue. Gel testing monos and ours clearly revealed the answer to inconsistent behavior after impact. By marrying high BC to reliable bullet expansion we had a basic design that could be applied to any caliber bullet. The only compromise we had to deal with is the fact that copper is less dense than lead, a handicap that really only exists in the .224 caliber and smaller. Generalizing about copper monos to our bullets is inaccurate, as is the notion that heavy lead core bullets in a given caliber penetrate better than our lighter for caliber bullets. I have one report of a 5 ft penetration of our 275 gr 338 SBD2 bullet into a charging Grizzly Bear after being hit in the head with the bullet having gone through the skull at 35 yds or so, and several accounts of both complete longitudinal pass throughs in Moose and Elk. That is why we advocate for quartering shots being highly lethal because our bullets will penetrate in an expanded state to make that possible. [/QUOTE]
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