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<blockquote data-quote="Buffalobob" data-source="post: 333825" data-attributes="member: 8"><p>If you look carefully at the picture of the antelope in the thread below you will see that the bipod covers the cut throat. This antelope dropped like a rock with a broken offside shoulder and had a huge exit hole through that shoulder where the Berger expanded. What I found was that when it had hit the ground that it landed on the exit wound which sealed it off. The hide probably moved on the entrance wound and sealed it off. Consequently, the chest was not open to the atmospheric pressure. Contrary to popular opinion, the lungs themselves may not bleed very much from a bullet hole. Much like you, I goofed around because the animal was "obviously dead" and when I finally got to it 45 minutes later it was very much alive but unable to move. </p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.longrangehunting.com/forums/f26/bates-hole-buck-part-2c-24459/" target="_blank">http://www.longrangehunting.com/forums/f26/bates-hole-buck-part-2c-24459/</a></p><p></p><p>I do not understand how some people ALWAYS get "'bang flop". It just doesn't happen that much with me.</p><p></p><p>One thing that seems to happen when the bullet lands high is that the shock wave hits the spinal column and knocks it unconscious for a while. Sometimes it dies while unconscious and sometimes it gets up after a while and runs off (that was really disconcerting when the dead animal was not where I saw it drop.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Buffalobob, post: 333825, member: 8"] If you look carefully at the picture of the antelope in the thread below you will see that the bipod covers the cut throat. This antelope dropped like a rock with a broken offside shoulder and had a huge exit hole through that shoulder where the Berger expanded. What I found was that when it had hit the ground that it landed on the exit wound which sealed it off. The hide probably moved on the entrance wound and sealed it off. Consequently, the chest was not open to the atmospheric pressure. Contrary to popular opinion, the lungs themselves may not bleed very much from a bullet hole. Much like you, I goofed around because the animal was "obviously dead" and when I finally got to it 45 minutes later it was very much alive but unable to move. [URL="http://www.longrangehunting.com/forums/f26/bates-hole-buck-part-2c-24459/"]http://www.longrangehunting.com/forums/f26/bates-hole-buck-part-2c-24459/[/URL] I do not understand how some people ALWAYS get "'bang flop". It just doesn't happen that much with me. One thing that seems to happen when the bullet lands high is that the shock wave hits the spinal column and knocks it unconscious for a while. Sometimes it dies while unconscious and sometimes it gets up after a while and runs off (that was really disconcerting when the dead animal was not where I saw it drop.) [/QUOTE]
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