01-20-2022, 05:40 AM
well, it's not the 1900s anymore and we can't go to the Chicago stock yards and shoot thousands of cattle and autopsy the dead animals and make some predictions or recommendations.
examining bullets in game animals "after" they've done the work can be an issue depending upon one's own idea of if they want an exit hole or not as well. those that prefer an exit hole that goes along with the entrance one make it quite difficult to examine what the bullet looks like after it's done the work. You can autopsy the critter and see what were the results of the bullet on the critter, but the bullet becomes very difficult to find once it exits the animal.
if you can shoot critters at the right distance and angle to be able to recover the bullet still inside the game animal, then depending on what the bullet hits along the way, the shape/size/weight etc of two identical bullets out of the same box of bullets or ammo, fired in the same rifle yada yada will most likely be very different upon recovery. And what would be the learning then? Someone will step back and look and say, hmmm, they both killed the critter, and leave it at that. if we lose an animal to a poor performing bullet, we all want to know what went wrong, but often when we're gutting out the deer, worrying about the effectiveness of the bullet we just killed the deer with is not top of mind....
as long as you and your boys keep up the great shot placement, you'll be filling the freezer.
-tdbru
examining bullets in game animals "after" they've done the work can be an issue depending upon one's own idea of if they want an exit hole or not as well. those that prefer an exit hole that goes along with the entrance one make it quite difficult to examine what the bullet looks like after it's done the work. You can autopsy the critter and see what were the results of the bullet on the critter, but the bullet becomes very difficult to find once it exits the animal.
if you can shoot critters at the right distance and angle to be able to recover the bullet still inside the game animal, then depending on what the bullet hits along the way, the shape/size/weight etc of two identical bullets out of the same box of bullets or ammo, fired in the same rifle yada yada will most likely be very different upon recovery. And what would be the learning then? Someone will step back and look and say, hmmm, they both killed the critter, and leave it at that. if we lose an animal to a poor performing bullet, we all want to know what went wrong, but often when we're gutting out the deer, worrying about the effectiveness of the bullet we just killed the deer with is not top of mind....
as long as you and your boys keep up the great shot placement, you'll be filling the freezer.
-tdbru