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To: ChadGore; SLB
Don't expect much of a "ballistics" matach from .223s fired into a stump or a person at 3,000fps.

This is not like tv, where they show a hardly deformed round nose pistol bullet for comparison.

83 posted on 10/24/2002 7:27:03 AM PDT by Travis McGee
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To: Travis McGee
This is not like tv, where they show a hardly deformed round nose pistol bullet for comparison.

Folks won't realize that. I have tried to dig the bullet out of every deer/elk that I have shot. The worst case was a little doe that I shot in the chest head on with a .243 in Texas. It virtually exploded everything in her chest cavity and I recovered only some fragments. The best was an elk shot in the upper right hip with a 30-06 Silver Tip. I still have the bullet somewhere. It is almost a perfect mushroom to about 1/3 again the diameter. We used to shoot at just about any and all things for plinking and I have seen some .22 LR bullets that in no way even resemble a bullet. I have seen some that look like they could be re-used. Ballistics are a strange science.

89 posted on 10/24/2002 7:45:23 AM PDT by SLB
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