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How far out will this bullet/rifle perform?
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<blockquote data-quote="Warren Jensen" data-source="post: 241" data-attributes="member: 21"><p>Darryl,</p><p></p><p>I am going to disagree with you here. Energy is not a good quantifier of bullet lethality. The hole the bullet makes,primary and secondary, is what is lethal. Energy or 1/2 Mass times Velocity Squared doe not give any description as to how a bullet expands, how it retains that expansion, how it retains it's structural integrity, how it penetrates, whether it tumbles, how much energy is used to form it's expanded shape and more. Using energy as a quantifier assumes all bullets will perform identically. They don't. </p><p></p><p>Also, there is a definite border between bullets traveling above 1500 fps. upon impact and bullets traveling below 1500 fps. upon impact. You wont' see it with a 1510-1490 deltaV but you will with a 1600-1400 deltaV. You can consider those below 1500 as non-expanding. This is not that they do not deform, but is due to the fact that there is little wave induced, or secondary wound channel, damage around the primary hole. Sometimes secondary is interpreted from damage caused by a bullet that tumbles. This latter effect can be quite dramatic, but in most bullets is unpredictable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warren Jensen, post: 241, member: 21"] Darryl, I am going to disagree with you here. Energy is not a good quantifier of bullet lethality. The hole the bullet makes,primary and secondary, is what is lethal. Energy or 1/2 Mass times Velocity Squared doe not give any description as to how a bullet expands, how it retains that expansion, how it retains it's structural integrity, how it penetrates, whether it tumbles, how much energy is used to form it's expanded shape and more. Using energy as a quantifier assumes all bullets will perform identically. They don't. Also, there is a definite border between bullets traveling above 1500 fps. upon impact and bullets traveling below 1500 fps. upon impact. You wont' see it with a 1510-1490 deltaV but you will with a 1600-1400 deltaV. You can consider those below 1500 as non-expanding. This is not that they do not deform, but is due to the fact that there is little wave induced, or secondary wound channel, damage around the primary hole. Sometimes secondary is interpreted from damage caused by a bullet that tumbles. This latter effect can be quite dramatic, but in most bullets is unpredictable. [/QUOTE]
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