Author Topic: Terminal performance: Exit wound or all Energy in Animal? (Read 4493 times)

RandyWakeman · « **Reply #60 on:** December 29, 2003, 12:09:34 PM »

It's been fairly well established, through the last 50,000 deer or so, that a 100 grain Pyrodex pushed 240 / 250 gr. XTP will drop a deer well to 125 yards if the shot is placed well.

Flatland Hunter · « **Reply #61 on:** December 31, 2003, 06:47:40 AM »

I know it has all been discussed, but for me... a properly placed shot with a big "as a truck" wound channel that has both an entrance and an exit. Would I like to recover a bullet on the opposite hide some day? Yeah... but I would much rather recover the animal and that "red brick road" laid down with two lanes will help me do that.

RandyWakeman · « **Reply #62 on:** December 31, 2003, 12:38:06 PM »

Actually, trucks DO kill more deer in Chicago than hunters do. :cry:

vinconco · « **Reply #63 on:** December 31, 2003, 12:45:17 PM »

Hey guys
I'm a first time poster and would like to weigh in on a couple points.

XTP bullets. Shot a big doe at 15 yds with a .44 mag carbine pushing a 300 gr. XTP at 1500 fps. The deer was facing me and I hit her in the white patch under the throat. We used a metal detector to find the bullet in the hindquater ..... It was completely undamaged to the point where it could have been shot again. NO expansion. It had shot through the deer END TO END and passed through the neck and pelvis bones so HEY DannoBoone you just can't count on some things all the time.

Most of the posts seem to assume the deer stand offering perfect broadside shots. In these cases a blow up bullet works great. Try them on a quartering away shot not to mention the ol' mexican heart shot and see what happens.

Put me down for an expanding bullet that retains most of its weight.

Omega · « **Reply #64 on:** December 31, 2003, 01:47:24 PM »

Quote from: vinconco

Put me down for an expanding bullet that retains most of its weight.

Yep, that is why I'm so happy with the SST.

Happy New Year All
Rich