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ORIGINAL: oldsmellhound
I just watched this hunting video where a guy shot a buck with the .45 225 grain Powerbelt and 150 grains of Pyrodex. Deer was about 50 yards away, and dropped like it had been struck by lightning. I found it interesting, though, that they never showed the hunter posing with the deer post-mortem. Probably due to the football sized hole in the deer's neck or chest where the bullet exploded.
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Bingo, happensvery frequentlywith PBs, since the OFFICIAL (from CVA) on how to shoot and load them is here:
http://www.powerbeltbullets.com/ballistic.html
if you notice when you look at the PDFs at the above link you don't see 70 and 80g loads for ANY of the PB bullets, you see 100, 130 and 150g load recommended by CVA on this web site. In my opinion that is both unethical and inhumane, since many deer are wounded and get away to die a very slow painful death from this load, especially the 150g load. A lotta deer are shot within 50 yards, broadside "bow shots" are the only shot to take on deer at that distance with150g load. CVA needs to add another row to their table for each Load (100g, 130g, 150g), "probability that the bullet will fragment".
As FG so shows so very well, they hold up well at low velocity, but once you get around 100g they start falling apart. Bow shots falling apart inside thin skinned deer OK, dead deer, but oblique shots, shoulder shots are wounded deer and likely no recovery, on elk and bigger game you got issues. We owe it to the animals we hunt and to God to kill the beasts with the most humane way possible. I get that belief from thispassage of scripture:
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Proverbs 12:10 (Whole Chapter)
A righteous man hath regard for the life of his beast, but the tender mercies of the wicked are
cruel. [/ol]
If you do a google search for "Powerbelt fragments", click here to see that:
http://tinyurl.com/64wvyu
you will see a lot of content. True they are the most popular bullet for ML hunting, so you should see some, but a lot ----I don't think you should see this if the bullet was not fragmenting.
If you do the exact same search with "Barnes MZ fragments" or Nosler Partition HG fragments you will NOT see any content about them fragmenting, you will see them compared to fragmenting bullets--usually PB in MLing.
CVA should revise their official web site to get in line with KNOWN bullet fragmenting knowledge and recommend to folks that they only shoot no more than 90 or 100g. Just my opinion, a sample of size 1, but I learned>>my personal PB Goldenrule<< thru the school of unrecoved deer and I HATE it.
Chap Gleason
New Powerbelt find
