ORIGINAL: Pglasgow
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.
I have not seen that shoot thruperformance on PRBand I used them 2 years. In fact Randy Wakeman here:
http://www.chuckhawks.com/powerbelt_bullets.htm
says this about PRB:
The facts speak for themselves. From any ballistic performance standpoint, Powerbelts make Hornady XTPs and Barnes MZ-Expanders in MMP sabots look like God's gift to muzzleloading. The day of the deer-crippling round ball has come and gone. Now, with the advent of Triple 7 and other high-energy propellants, the dismal trajectories of conicals means that their days as popular hunting projectiles are probably numbered.
So Randy says the PRB is a deer-crippling bullet, which is what my experience is also. Chap