ORIGINAL: gleason.chapman
ORIGINAL: Pglasgow
Take a all lead projectile, (PB, GP conical, BS conical, or a patched round ball), for a given energy, at a velocity ideal for the projectile, and it will OUTPERFORM a jacketed bullet of equivalent impact energy. I am totally convinced of this.
Phil,
How did you reach that conclusion? When you say OUTPERFORM, what do you mean terminal performance? Penetration? Expansion? I believe the best bullet is a pass thru (so there is an exit wound, large hole) . . .
Chap,
I mean that it will dissipate a greater proportion of it's energy into wounding leading to better terminal performance, literally killing better and faster.
This is not to say that one can not use a jacketed bullet at greater impact energy and get better wounding. I really don't know. It is complex as greater energy for lighter jacketed bullets generally mean greater velocity and a larger proportion of energy dissipated near the surface at thePOI. From my own experience, full bore hollowpoint bullets of 385 grain weight are deer killing demons which knock the snot out of deer. Based the experience of others who I trust, patched roundballs are deer killing demons also. They both are, (as are saboted jacket bullets), capable of cleanly killing deer.