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Old 01-17-2008 | 05:18 PM
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If you are looking for a pss through you may be shooting the wrong bullet... A Power Belt really is nothing more that a elongated round ball. It is made of a very soft lead so that it will obterate to your barrel. On contact it will usually do two things 1. blow up or 2 flatten out to a very big piece of lead. So it chances of passing through are very slim.

There are two schools of thought here...

1. Some people want all the energy of the projectile expended in the animal, and pass throughs are really a waste of energy.... It is a good theory and often works...

2. The other thought is that 'penetration' and cutting of organs is the key along with the hydrostatic damage that occurs as the bullet passes through the animal. If the bullet works properly you will get blood pumping out of both the enterance and the exit holes.

If you like shooting the easy loading PB then you really need to slow it down or Hornady is coming out with a new bullet that loads like a PB but according to the company penetrates far better. It is to expensive for me and the jury is still out on its operation. You can look here and form some of your own opinions.

http://www.hornady.com/media/2008catalog/Page_0043.pdf

Personally I will continue to use Nosler Partitions as long as I can afford them, and when I can not I will switch to Speer Gold Dots either the 250 grain for whitetail or the 300 grain for both deer and elk..

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