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We are all asute enough to know the bullet must be up to the job of doing the job we want it to, in anything we poke it, no matter what we launch it from.

High velocity seems to work on some game - mentioned that above, but the heavier and/or more dangerous the animal, the less susceptable to this high speed 'shock' they seem.

Don't overlook the tissue and blood vessel "cauterizing" phenominum that seems attached to nerve and tissue shock produced by high speed bullets.

We, human beings, are suseceptable to this so-called nerve shock - it's part and parcel to being human. You can slice your hand, leg or arm open and feel no pain - no bleeding, either, right away that is - nerve shock blocks the pain and has a cauterizing effect on the tissues. It takes some time before the blood flows, doesn't it - and then gushhhhhh.

Much the same thing happens (I surmise - yeah - my opinion) to an aminal that is hit by a high speed, rapidly expanding bullet that creates 'shock' to the system.

If you've ever watched a slower moving bullet (or arrow) go into and out of an animal and virtually immediately see the blood pour & continue to pour out the entrance and exit holes, you know what I mean. With the high speed rapidly expanding bullet, the blood inside doesn't pour out - there is a spray if the bullet exits or sometimes out the entrance, but then nothing - cut the deer, moose or elk, antelope open and the blood is like a chunk of jello, like an organ itself - congealed - by the shock? I think so. Makes sense.

That is why the PH's say 2,150fps is the goods - on all game. When hit, they bleed, no matter what they are.

On some game, the higher speed bullets work wonders, even the 270gr.(2,600fps MV) .375's shock 'effect' was noticable on plains game immediately after it's inception in 1912. Hunters were amazed at it seemed to kill like a lightening strike, on some animals some didn't die quickly - Hmm.

That 'shock' effect didn't always happen and it didn't happen much if at all on the really dangerous game - except maybe the lighter cats - maybe - sometimes did, not always.

I suspect you want a dangerous animal to bleed NOW and copiously, not to hold congealed blood in it's cavity and continue to bite, claw or trample - bleed out and die - shutdown - quickly.

Something to think about - maybe. Disregard if you wish.

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