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Slower may be better.??
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<blockquote data-quote="RBrowning" data-source="post: 32548" data-attributes="member: 412"><p>I am in full agreement on how much energy you want to waste on the background. A couple of years ago I was hunting iv WV with a friend. All in the woods, nothing farther than 150-200 yards at the very most. I was expecting 243's or 30-30's or maybe an 06 or 2, but they are of the opinion hat a 300 Win Mag or RUM is the way to go. Their reasoning is that they want to hit the deer as hard as possible and knock it off it's feet. They never could explain to me how a 308 bullet that passed through a deer out of a 300 magnum was going to expend any more energy than the same bullet out of an 06 that passes through too. We all agreed that your shoulder would notice and you might leave a bigger hole in the side of the mountian, but they just couldn't get me to understand how the deer could tell the difference. Maybe it had something to do with them all having worked in the coal mines and they liked deep holes, I don't know. <img src="http://images/icons/grin.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> </p><p></p><p>On a more serious note, you may find that as you slow down a given bullet that you may actually penatrate deeper because you get less mushrooming at lower velocities. So it can happen that the faster bullet expands more and disapates it's energy faster and penetrates less. Maybe this is what the WV folks were all about.</p><p></p><p>[ 03-17-2004: Message edited by: RBrowning ]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RBrowning, post: 32548, member: 412"] I am in full agreement on how much energy you want to waste on the background. A couple of years ago I was hunting iv WV with a friend. All in the woods, nothing farther than 150-200 yards at the very most. I was expecting 243's or 30-30's or maybe an 06 or 2, but they are of the opinion hat a 300 Win Mag or RUM is the way to go. Their reasoning is that they want to hit the deer as hard as possible and knock it off it's feet. They never could explain to me how a 308 bullet that passed through a deer out of a 300 magnum was going to expend any more energy than the same bullet out of an 06 that passes through too. We all agreed that your shoulder would notice and you might leave a bigger hole in the side of the mountian, but they just couldn't get me to understand how the deer could tell the difference. Maybe it had something to do with them all having worked in the coal mines and they liked deep holes, I don't know. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] On a more serious note, you may find that as you slow down a given bullet that you may actually penatrate deeper because you get less mushrooming at lower velocities. So it can happen that the faster bullet expands more and disapates it's energy faster and penetrates less. Maybe this is what the WV folks were all about. [ 03-17-2004: Message edited by: RBrowning ] [/QUOTE]
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