Quote Originally Posted by TStone View Post
I do not believe that energy dump have any meaningful effect in terminal performance. Plus a bullet that exits mostly leave a much better blood spoor, should you need to track the animal after it was shot.
The most difficult of debates :)

Take three bullets, a non expanding semi wadcutter, a expanding monolithic like GMX, and a expanding bonded like Interbond.

The wadcutter will just shoot straight through the animal, since it doesn’t expand it will have the smallest permanent would channel, it really does not have the mechanical means to dispose of its energy.

The GMX will expand, and most probably penetrate fully, but it will not have the biggest frontal expansion and will also most likely not use all its energy in wound channel creation.

The Interbond is known to expand very well, and it will create the biggest permanent wound channel, but because of its expansion size it will not penetrate the deepest, or fully in bigger animals, yet it uses all its energy in the wound channel creation phase, for lack of better words, it dumped it’s energy.

Since the only measure of reliable killing is the destruction of vitals, and the only way to use a bullet is to provide it with momentum, it’s a fair assumption that bullets use energy to kill. If you don’t believe it shoot a 150gr TSX at 3000ft/s and also at 1000ft/s, see which kills fastest, then explain why.