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How Much energy is too little?
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<blockquote data-quote="FireFlyFishing" data-source="post: 3067428" data-attributes="member: 127412"><p>Manufacture's certainly do physics calculations to derive their recommendations. They also physically test their bullets. Cool.</p><p></p><p>I'm not producing bullets. So ft/lbs of energy isn't a huge factor for terminal ballistics for me. I can let those folks figure it out…and follow their recommendations. I never said it is a worthless metric. However, as a consumer it is somewhat inadequate as a primary terminal ballistics determining factor for my hunt shot determinations. </p><p></p><p>So for example. I shot a cow elk with a 300WM last year using a 190 grn ABLR (2975 fps muzzle velocity) @418 yards. Nosler recommends at least 1300 FPS for adequate terminal performance. I was well within the recommended envelope. The result was a well placed shot and a bang flop. With all that being said…energy was not considered by me and…it didn't matter in the end.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FireFlyFishing, post: 3067428, member: 127412"] Manufacture’s certainly do physics calculations to derive their recommendations. They also physically test their bullets. Cool. I’m not producing bullets. So ft/lbs of energy isn’t a huge factor for terminal ballistics for me. I can let those folks figure it out…and follow their recommendations. I never said it is a worthless metric. However, as a consumer it is somewhat inadequate as a primary terminal ballistics determining factor for my hunt shot determinations. So for example. I shot a cow elk with a 300WM last year using a 190 grn ABLR (2975 fps muzzle velocity) @418 yards. Nosler recommends at least 1300 FPS for adequate terminal performance. I was well within the recommended envelope. The result was a well placed shot and a bang flop. With all that being said…energy was not considered by me and…it didn’t matter in the end. [/QUOTE]
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