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Thread: What happened here?
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22-02-2018, 03:13 #31
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22-02-2018, 03:29 #32
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22-02-2018, 05:03 #33
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22-02-2018, 06:44 #34
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Re: What happened here?
Interesting. Didn't think about that.
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22-02-2018, 10:19 #35
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Re: What happened here?
Bullets do weird things once they impact with an object. From my army days on Barkly-Wes shooting range which had a rocky backstop. The bullet hit a rock and came back to nearly hit the corporal standing under the concrete abutment - I suppose many wished he had been hit. That was a a 180 degree reversal.
Trying to get rid of all the energy in the projectile creates these dancing cartwheels.
I also think that the skin folds are the answer to what happened with the BWB. The big hole in that Impala that I shot is still a mystery, except if the skin also folded over and was the ripped out.
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22-02-2018, 10:31 #36
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Re: What happened here?
Very good thought Pre64!
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22-02-2018, 14:45 #37
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Re: What happened here?
If it was a folded piece of skin the wounds would be horizontal instead of vertical.
Unless the animal was standing on it's head when T-stone shot it.
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22-02-2018, 14:54 #38
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Re: What happened here?
Common practice employed by the Free State Blue Wildebeest as an anti 'being shot' technique Messor.
It normally works for them as proved by the scarcity of such wounds as depicted by T. [There was however,no fooling him]
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22-02-2018, 16:59 #39
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Re: What happened here?
It was, as far as I could determine, standing on its four feet.
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22-02-2018, 17:26 #40
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Re: What happened here?
You did say that you were above it? I think the folded skin postulation is still the most feasible. Have you guys seen what force is displayed when the bullet hits the skin of an animal. Shock waves radiate outwards. New cameras show hits on beasts in slo-mo and the energy transfer is extensive.
In fractions of a second there could have been very funny displacements of loose skinfolds.
I have heard no suggestions as to the fist sized hole in the Impala's chest? It was open between me and the ram, so no external interference possible.
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