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<blockquote data-quote="Lou270" data-source="post: 2519282" data-attributes="member: 5352"><p>I think reason "target" bullets work well is because they in general are thin jacketed and soft lead core and do lots of damage. And in the end you are zipping a hunk if metal a few thousand fps at something vital. It will probably kill quickly assuming gets inside. After all, Jack O'Connor said years ago the faster a bullet goes apart once unside the vitals the faster it kills. Nothing has changed but a generation of folks/gun writers pushed for tougher bullets so premium bullets that are almost guaranteed not to come apart are common. </p><p></p><p>All that being said there were reasons for hunting vs target bullets in my opinion. Hunting bullets are designed the way they are for a reason. Any tweak to that design will be with an eye towards the end application. Target bullets are the same. A manufacturer could tweak a jacket or core of something for accuracy or BC or whatever and change terminal performance. Berger is a great example of this. The target bullet jackets are thicker than the hunting bullets. Berger needed to beef up the jackets because people were using faster and faster twist and bigger cases and bullets were coming apart. So they beefed up the jackets to handle this but then found it impacted terminal performance so split the line into hunting and target models. Who is to say another target manufacturer beefs up the jacket or something and since it is a 'target' bullet may find out too late for hunting. In any case that is why I am leary about using pure "target" bullets, but I do use and am big fan of berger hunting bullets</p><p></p><p>Lou</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lou270, post: 2519282, member: 5352"] I think reason “target” bullets work well is because they in general are thin jacketed and soft lead core and do lots of damage. And in the end you are zipping a hunk if metal a few thousand fps at something vital. It will probably kill quickly assuming gets inside. After all, Jack O’Connor said years ago the faster a bullet goes apart once unside the vitals the faster it kills. Nothing has changed but a generation of folks/gun writers pushed for tougher bullets so premium bullets that are almost guaranteed not to come apart are common. All that being said there were reasons for hunting vs target bullets in my opinion. Hunting bullets are designed the way they are for a reason. Any tweak to that design will be with an eye towards the end application. Target bullets are the same. A manufacturer could tweak a jacket or core of something for accuracy or BC or whatever and change terminal performance. Berger is a great example of this. The target bullet jackets are thicker than the hunting bullets. Berger needed to beef up the jackets because people were using faster and faster twist and bigger cases and bullets were coming apart. So they beefed up the jackets to handle this but then found it impacted terminal performance so split the line into hunting and target models. Who is to say another target manufacturer beefs up the jacket or something and since it is a ‘target’ bullet may find out too late for hunting. In any case that is why I am leary about using pure “target” bullets, but I do use and am big fan of berger hunting bullets Lou [/QUOTE]
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