original: chap gleason
This is what I think is going on with the PB, they are "pancakes" usually 1 or 2 inches below the skin (I read that somewhere). Therefore their frontal area is too large. I can't prove any of this . . .
I know you can't prove it. Every roundball which strikes at a velocity exceeding 1300 fps becomes a pancake. And yet, they go all the way through anyway. Sometimes, they go all the way through and break a leg, or even other times, they go all the way through and kill another deer by severing the spine.
Now this isn't theory, this is the real world, real experiences of cayugad which I have journaled.