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Hydrostatic shock, what's your opinion?
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<blockquote data-quote="D.Camilleri" data-source="post: 341869" data-attributes="member: 2567"><p>I would like to add one more thing that hasn't been mentioned yet, fight stopper rounds, you know the big boys, 458's 460's, even 416's, there is a reason that they have a reputation for stopping big animals in life threatening situations, because they do it on a regular basis. </p><p></p><p>On the same note, medium bore rounds have similar effects on medium sized big game and sometimes even on larger sized big game that smaller rounds can't compete with. My prefference is a .338 bullet driven at high velocity. I have never experienced an animal big or small that went any distance when properly hit in the chest cavity and I have also witnessed several elk that were incapacitated at distances over 500 yards from less than perfect shots, allowing the follow up shot to be made. These are observations that were never apparent to me when I used smaller calibers such as 30-06 and 7mm mag. If I could make every shot a perfect shot exactly where I wanted the bullet to hit, I could probably kill everything with a 22-250 and good bullets. Until you experience a shot on an elk with a 30-06 and the elk runs up hill and out of sight with no hope of being recovered it makes you realize that the hydraulic energy of larger rounds has a definate relationship to marginal shots at long range.</p><p></p><p>I was hunting elk one year with a friend in the timber, I cow called in a bull and my friend got off the first shot at about 150 yards with a 180 grain bullet out of a 300 win, the bull didn't act like it was hit,</p><p>and I followed with a shot out of my 338 ultra with a 210 gr barnes, the bull collapsed instantly. Upon getting to the elk, our shots were within 3 inches of each other. My thought is the massive amount of shock generated by the bigger round or possibly the hemorage effect, but it sure looked impressive.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="D.Camilleri, post: 341869, member: 2567"] I would like to add one more thing that hasn't been mentioned yet, fight stopper rounds, you know the big boys, 458's 460's, even 416's, there is a reason that they have a reputation for stopping big animals in life threatening situations, because they do it on a regular basis. On the same note, medium bore rounds have similar effects on medium sized big game and sometimes even on larger sized big game that smaller rounds can't compete with. My prefference is a .338 bullet driven at high velocity. I have never experienced an animal big or small that went any distance when properly hit in the chest cavity and I have also witnessed several elk that were incapacitated at distances over 500 yards from less than perfect shots, allowing the follow up shot to be made. These are observations that were never apparent to me when I used smaller calibers such as 30-06 and 7mm mag. If I could make every shot a perfect shot exactly where I wanted the bullet to hit, I could probably kill everything with a 22-250 and good bullets. Until you experience a shot on an elk with a 30-06 and the elk runs up hill and out of sight with no hope of being recovered it makes you realize that the hydraulic energy of larger rounds has a definate relationship to marginal shots at long range. I was hunting elk one year with a friend in the timber, I cow called in a bull and my friend got off the first shot at about 150 yards with a 180 grain bullet out of a 300 win, the bull didn't act like it was hit, and I followed with a shot out of my 338 ultra with a 210 gr barnes, the bull collapsed instantly. Upon getting to the elk, our shots were within 3 inches of each other. My thought is the massive amount of shock generated by the bigger round or possibly the hemorage effect, but it sure looked impressive. [/QUOTE]
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