WildRose
Well-Known Member
Someone posted this again today and it made me think maybe we should discuss it again.
Now 50 years ago this was the "standard" by which people pretty well went in desirable terminal performance with most game and most bullets.
Even well into the late Eighties and Nineties this was probably still the dominant thinking at least here in N. America.
That however has never been the standard for game, particularly big game hunters in the rest of the world.
The theory of course was that if the bullet never exited all of it's energy was imparted to the target which would make for the cleanest and most humane kill. I'm not positive but I think Jack O'Connor was probably responsible for this becoming the dominant mindset in N., American and particularly the US.
What we've learned though over the years however is that a single hole doesn't usually produce a whole lot of a blood trail ant bullets that pass through completely show to do more damage overall when examining wounds not to mention much better blood trails to follow.
What is your preference, your experience and why? Pictures are welcome but on this computer I don't have any to share although I have shared many here over the years in prior threads.
Now let's see if I can get a poll working right?
A bullet that expends it's energy in the target animal and remains inside after expending all of it's energy therein
Now 50 years ago this was the "standard" by which people pretty well went in desirable terminal performance with most game and most bullets.
Even well into the late Eighties and Nineties this was probably still the dominant thinking at least here in N. America.
That however has never been the standard for game, particularly big game hunters in the rest of the world.
The theory of course was that if the bullet never exited all of it's energy was imparted to the target which would make for the cleanest and most humane kill. I'm not positive but I think Jack O'Connor was probably responsible for this becoming the dominant mindset in N., American and particularly the US.
What we've learned though over the years however is that a single hole doesn't usually produce a whole lot of a blood trail ant bullets that pass through completely show to do more damage overall when examining wounds not to mention much better blood trails to follow.
What is your preference, your experience and why? Pictures are welcome but on this computer I don't have any to share although I have shared many here over the years in prior threads.
Now let's see if I can get a poll working right?