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<blockquote data-quote="memtb" data-source="post: 2949642" data-attributes="member: 75451"><p>Not just a moose! <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😉" title="Winking face :wink:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" data-shortname=":wink:" /></p><p></p><p> One of the reasons that I'm very skeptical about ft/lbs. energy being a reliable measure of a bullet's killing potential……. is because of something that happened to me!</p><p></p><p> Quite a few years ago, I shot a small "rag horn" bull elk at about 35 or so yards. The bull was broadside, the bullet entered just behind the shoulder and exited on the offside! This little bull was hit (at that distance) with just under 5000 ft./lbs of energy…..yet showed no sign of being hit. The bull continued to walk, perhaps he picked up his pace just a little, continued about 8 or 10 yards as I was reloading, turned straight away ….took a step or two and "tipped over"!</p><p></p><p> If ft/lbs is one of the true measures of a bullet's ability to do work, as in kill, this little bull at the very least….. should have been moved over a bit! I didn't even see a perceptible flinch! memtb</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="memtb, post: 2949642, member: 75451"] Not just a moose! 😉 One of the reasons that I'm very skeptical about ft/lbs. energy being a reliable measure of a bullet's killing potential……. is because of something that happened to me! Quite a few years ago, I shot a small "rag horn" bull elk at about 35 or so yards. The bull was broadside, the bullet entered just behind the shoulder and exited on the offside! This little bull was hit (at that distance) with just under 5000 ft./lbs of energy…..yet showed no sign of being hit. The bull continued to walk, perhaps he picked up his pace just a little, continued about 8 or 10 yards as I was reloading, turned straight away ….took a step or two and "tipped over"! If ft/lbs is one of the true measures of a bullet's ability to do work, as in kill, this little bull at the very least….. should have been moved over a bit! I didn't even see a perceptible flinch! memtb [/QUOTE]
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