NitroX
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| 30/06/10 04:19 PM |
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Re: Killing vs. Stopping.
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Just read an interesting article on this regarding actually shooting a .577 on elephant..an important item on the report was the velocity of the ammo used in 2 seperate cases on two bulls --the bullets failed to penetrate..later chronographed it was found the ammo was only traveling at 1800 fps...not enough, per the article, to penetrate the big bulls of Botswana..
Have had several PH'S tell me, again, for the big bulls as those in Botswana, 2300 fps is near ideal..
Ripp,
I would question that conclusion. Not from experience with shooting an elephant with a .577 shooting bullets at 1800 fps, but from a gut feel.
Also the 2300 fps, most, if not all, of the big NE cartridges, shoot at the muzzle slower than this, usually around 2000 fps to 2100 fps, and have always seemed pretty effective to me.
A lot of magazine articles always seem to me to have a lot of "writer's licence" inserted in them.
JMO.