| mickey |
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| 04/03/04 09:44 AM |
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Re: Barnes X bullet report
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In reply to:
Poster: Boghossian
Subject: Re: Barnes X bullet report
Wow Mickey, that is a hell of a lot of zebra!! I assume you were doing some pretty intensive culling, which country?
By the way, what speed were you sending those X bullets at? Saeed at accuratereloading always uses them but always at very high speeds, which must cause more expansion. I do not doubt that when fired from a non-magnum at distance, they will only give half the wound channel of a traditional lead cored bullet.
It was on a Game Farm in the Western Transvaal, not a Hunting Farm. We were culling them for meat, thus the neck shots. Each Kilo was, at that time, worth about 7 Rand. The guys I was with were tired of shooting things so I and another fellow did that while they loaded them up and processed them. We shot them all in one day, from the vehicle.
I don't know about velocity making a differance. I think a lot of the people who sing their praises are good shots but a kill shot is a kill shot. I have never heard anything about them blowing up, only not expanding at all. How would you know if it expanded or not when it passes through? Other than the damage inside and the exit hole?