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Thread: Bullet performance data base
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23-06-2022, 16:15 #811
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Re: Bullet performance data base
200m = 2500 fps give or take a few FPS
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23-06-2022, 17:36 #812
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23-06-2022, 20:05 #813
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Re: Bullet performance data base
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I on the other hand believe this happens when the bullet hits something hard (round bone) on one side of the point while tip is in soft matter but not yet expanded. The hard object on side of bullet (ogive) deflects and perhaps bends bullet. The energia or momentum is in a straight line but the bullet is no longer laying straight to that line, either slightly or sideways.
This causes sideways travel or deflected travel which bends tip over and flattens bullet on side of travel direction.
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23-06-2022, 20:50 #814
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Re: Bullet performance data base
I shot a gemsbok bull with a 180gr Sierra out of my 303. The shot was taken obliquely from behind into the right side of the chest. Distance was about 150m. This was about 3h15 in the afternoon. We found his tracks and saw spots of lung blood. I proclaimed to the guide that he would be just ahead. We found him after about 300m looking back at us. Before I could shoot he took off and we did not see him again for the rest of the afternoon.
Every five to six metres there would be a big blob of lung blood. Checking now on Google Earth he traveled about 4km before it got dark and we had to abandon the pursuit. The next morning we easily found the blood spoor and it went up a slight incline. We found two resting places with a lot of watery blood. Moving along we suddenly heard a commotion and saw the buck moving very slowly through thick bush. When he stopped my luck shot broke its back and killed it on the spot.
That spot was right next to a dirt track that made retrieval very easy. The post mortem exposed the bullet lodged in the small fillet against the ribcage. Only one lung had been penetrated. The tip of the bullet was bent at 90 degrees. It seems as though the tip hit a rib and bent over. It then tumbled and lodged in the fillet. That occurrence and a subsequent bad experience with a warthog put me off lead/copper bullets. Since then I have used monometal bullets with good success. I do not want to experience the stress and disappointment of leaving a wounded animal in the veldt.
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23-06-2022, 21:44 #815
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Re: Bullet performance data base
Bullets do weird things unfortunately it's part of the game. I shot a waterbuck bull that had been shot on the shoulder with 180 grain Barnes X in 300H&H. Bullet hit the shoulder joint turned 90 degrees, traveled down the leg between bone and skin and exited near the hoof.
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24-06-2022, 13:46 #816
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24-06-2022, 17:58 #817
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Re: Bullet performance data base
I recently saw an Impala ewe shot on the left shoulder angling from the front with a 162 gr Hornady SST, 7X64. There was a patch of blood on the scene, followed by a few drops and then nothing. After searching for about an hour we found the ewe. The bullet had deflected from the shoulder across the rib cage, cleanly cutting the ribs and the front of the abdomen. No organ was touched. As the ewe ran she slowly eviscerated herself. When found one lung, the liver, gall bladder and stomach were hanging outside the body. There was very little organ damage or bleeding. Even the gall bladder was still intact.
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18-07-2022, 14:04 #818
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Re: Bullet performance data base
250gr Nosler Accubond 9.3mm bullets. Nosler factory loads.
Bullet in centre: Recovered from eland cow shot at ±200m. Full frontal shot in "die kuiltjie" recovered in rumen. Recovered weight 234.7gr (93.9%)
Bullet on right: Recovered from eland cow shot at ±150m. Angled away from shot. Entry just behind right shoulder, recovered under skin on left shoulder. Recovered weight 183.9gr (73.6%)
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18-07-2022, 20:53 #819
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12-08-2022, 12:50 #820
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Re: Bullet performance data base
.308" 180gr Barnes TTSX.
.30-378 Weatherby Magnum
MV ±3300
Impact velocity ± 2400fps.
Retained weight 179.1gr (99.5%)
Waterbuck bull at 400m.
Entry on shoulder, bullet recovered under skin behind far shoulder.
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