08-30-2011, 03:09 PM
buckbustn and cokecounty -- Your comments caught my attention. I had understood that the principal reason for light to no blood trail for .243 shot deer was lack of exit wounds. Yet buckbustn got 3 exits through the boiler room and still no blood trail?
Were the bullets premium or classic CoreLokt, PowerPoint, HotCore, Gameking, etc.?
Same questions for county and others.
I'm asking the question because the size of the permanent wound cavity more or less sets the rate of blood loss, all other things being equal. The size of the permanent wound cavity, in turn, is set by how much the bullet expands.
Bullets of similar construction typically expand to a fixed multiple of the bullet diameter for similar impact velocities. If rifles of .25 caliber and above generally get reasonable blood trails and rifles of .24 caliber and below don't, then that says something about where we should operate even when we can be assured of hitting the vital zone every time.
Were the bullets premium or classic CoreLokt, PowerPoint, HotCore, Gameking, etc.?
Same questions for county and others.
I'm asking the question because the size of the permanent wound cavity more or less sets the rate of blood loss, all other things being equal. The size of the permanent wound cavity, in turn, is set by how much the bullet expands.
Bullets of similar construction typically expand to a fixed multiple of the bullet diameter for similar impact velocities. If rifles of .25 caliber and above generally get reasonable blood trails and rifles of .24 caliber and below don't, then that says something about where we should operate even when we can be assured of hitting the vital zone every time.