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ORIGINAL: Hammer49
While shot placement is important...isn't it with any bullet? Later... [align=right][/align]
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Yep. Accuracy is #1, without doubt. if ya can't hit consistently game over. 2" group at 100 is normal for these inline MLer, 3" is OK. 4" get a different bullet or load for your rifle.
Penetration is #2. Gotta get into the vitals, 12" of penetration, gotta get thru bone. Why 12", it has been shown in man, that 12" is need to stop a man, a deer weights about the same as a man and a deer vitals are thicker than a mans vitals, so at least 12". If you only get 4" or 6" of penetration, you will in most cases kill the animal, but you will only get 1 lung or part of a something else, and that makes it a long tracking job.
Expansion is #3 for a quick kill. Expansion produces large wound channel, where organs vital to life are disconnected from there source and massive blood in left in it's wake. When wound channel is small flesh closes up quickly and clots quickly producing small blood trails (drop ever 10 yards or so) and again long tracking jobs and unrecoved deer.
Shoot thru is #4, close related to penetration, you can have deep penetration without shoot thru.You want a bullet that shots thru so you have excellent blood trail.
An excellent bullet does all 4 of these well every time, and at ranges from 0 to 170, which is MPBR for most inline MLer bullets when sighted in 3" hight at 100. I have no doubt that the SW does all these, most of the time.
Chap
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