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To: The Antiyuppie

Even with expanding hollow points a good quality bullet will stay together. A jacket separated from the core is considered bad form, fragmentation and loss of mass is also something most bullets are designed to minimize. Sure, there are exceptions, but why would you hunt for food with such a round?


12 posted on 09/16/2019 9:20:01 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps ( Be ready!)
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To: ThunderSleeps

Bullets designed for varmint hunting do exactly what you describe. They’re designed to fragment and dump all their energy within inches and as little damage to the hide as possible. Every few years we have to do a cull hunt on the ranch and take off whitetail does and inferior bucks. I carry a 243 in the truck, used mainly on coyotes and feral hogs. I shoot 58 grain V-Max at just under 4000 ft per second, I’ve never shot through a coyote with his round. I use the same rifle on the cull hunt with excellent results. Understand I take neck shots only but even them it will not exit. We lose the neck meat (Not many use it anyway) but the remainder is untouched. When we have them processed we loss no meat to damage. Two years ago we took 75 deer off the ranch in two days. Hit a feral hog in the lung/liver area with one of these and you rarely have a survivor. Good thing is they don’t just die on the spot and I don’t have to haul them to the dump. Just encase your wondering the deer are processed and all the meat is donated to Hunters for the Hungry. We do nothing with the hogs.


19 posted on 09/17/2019 4:45:42 AM PDT by Dusty Road (")
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