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Postman
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Re: On the subject of European big game and premium bullets.
15/11/13 01:26 PM

The size of the exit hole? Dead is dead.

I do prefer 1. An exit hole; 2. An exit hole that is larger than the entry hole to promote blood loss, and also as an indicator that my bullet did more than poke a narrow hole through the target, i.e. I want some evidence that "some" tissue destruction happened on the way through.

Smaller, deer sized game, 200 - 300 pounds don't seem to need a nasty medium bore like a .375 to make an impression on them, but whatever floats one's boat is a good thing! I once hunted caribou with a gent that pasted one broadside at 150 yards with a .300 Weatherby magnum. He had field dressed it and hauled it back to the trucks by the time the rest of us returned with our caribou. One of the older guys got incensed because when he looked at the caribou, the entire left side of the rib cage was missing, and he railed on about the Weatherby shooter's weird field dressing method of removing the entire side of the animal! The old gent grabbed the antlers and flipped the caribou over so the missing side was hidden from view from any passers by in the event they may have thought the group didn't know how to field dress an animal. We all smiled about that one for a few years! On the other extreme, we had another gent shooting a .45-70 using a heavy slow bullet that plowed a hole through his caribou, but without the dramatic effect of a disintegrated rib cage. The hole was closer to golf ball size on the exit, and maybe less, but the caribou was still just as dead. Nobody was using FMJ bullets, so there was always a reasonable exit hole.

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On the subject of European big game and premium bullets.	granhaven	15/11/13 07:05 AM
Re: On the subject of European big game and premium bullets.	granhaven	16/11/13 07:06 AM
Re: On the subject of European big game and premium bullets.	Postman	15/11/13 11:17 AM
Re: On the subject of European big game and premium bullets.	500Nitro	15/11/13 11:58 AM
Re: On the subject of European big game and premium bullets.	Postman	15/11/13 01:26 PM
Re: On the subject of European big game and premium bullets.	500Nitro	15/11/13 03:07 PM
Re: On the subject of European big game and premium bullets.	Mike_Bailey	15/11/13 06:16 PM
Re: On the subject of European big game and premium bullets.	Postman	15/11/13 10:25 PM
Re: On the subject of European big game and premium bullets.	DarylS	16/11/13 03:16 AM
Re: On the subject of European big game and premium bullets.	Ripp	01/12/13 01:08 AM
Re: On the subject of European big game and premium bullets.	gryphon	15/11/13 09:29 AM
Re: On the subject of European big game and premium bullets.	Rhodes	16/11/13 10:14 PM
Re: On the subject of European big game and premium bullets.	gryphon	18/11/13 08:32 AM
Re: On the subject of European big game and premium bullets.	Rolf	28/11/13 11:04 PM
Re: On the subject of European big game and premium bullets.	granhaven	29/11/13 09:30 AM
Re: On the subject of European big game and premium bullets.	DvK	30/11/13 09:19 PM
Re: On the subject of European big game and premium bullets.	granhaven	03/12/13 02:51 AM
Re: On the subject of European big game and premium bullets.	granhaven	15/01/14 05:10 AM
Re: On the subject of European big game and premium bullets.	Sville	15/01/14 06:18 AM
Re: On the subject of European big game and premium bullets.	500Nitro	03/12/13 03:06 AM
Re: On the subject of European big game and premium bullets.	NitroX	02/12/13 03:23 AM
Re: On the subject of European big game and premium bullets.	500Nitro	30/11/13 09:30 PM
Re: On the subject of European big game and premium bullets.	DvK	30/11/13 09:46 PM
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Re: On the subject of European big game and premium bullets.	DvK	30/11/13 10:20 PM
Re: On the subject of European big game and premium bullets.	500Nitro	30/11/13 10:37 PM
Re: On the subject of European big game and premium bullets.	granhaven	03/12/13 02:58 AM
Re: On the subject of European big game and premium bullets.	Igorrock	17/11/13 03:10 PM
Re: On the subject of European big game and premium bullets.	500Nitro	17/11/13 03:53 PM
Re: On the subject of European big game and premium bullets.	DarylS	18/11/13 05:16 AM
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