ORIGINAL: S1
If we can get past all of the BS from the guys who have not used this technology, and truly know nothing about it, I think I can explain how the technology works, and perhaps some will see it has real utility in some applications. Lets get some facts on the table upfront.....
1. I do not advocate gut shooting an animal, it is not necessary. I will never advocate this.
Thats good. Glad we got that out of the way.
2. There are two schools of thought concerning terminal ballistics in a hunting environment. The first is "Don't over penetrate, use all of energy of the projectile to cause tissue damage." The second school of thought is, "Make sure you have a large exit wound so the blood trail is easy to track." Although both methods will kill game, we know that the first method is more efficient and will kill quicker, all other criteria being equal. We know this from Fackler's research, and from live tissue tests and other data collected.
What? Martin Fackler's research found that the 'theory' (as in not a LAW) of hydrostatic shock was disproven, and that any sort of pressure wave that may be created by a bullet does nothing to aid in incapacitation or injury. Moreover, it is a commonly known fact amoung people who study terminal ballistics (which is really a fairly new field of reseach) that shockwaves do not occur, nor pass through incompressable fluids (water).
I much prefer an animal to fall in his tracks, I know right where to find him, especially on dangerous game. No one wants to follow a blood trail into tall grass or dense brush looking for a wounded brown bear, no matter how good the 'blood trail' is........Deleted by CalHunter...
Dangerous game? I'd rather bare knuckle box a brown bear while blindfolded and drunk than shoot him with a bullet I know is designed to desintigrate on impact.
Stop beating around the bear here (thats a pun.... get it). What is a hunter to do when he hits a shoulder bone? How have these bullets performed versus bone. Because I can tell you how my solid copper and copper/lead bullets have performed when they met bone, and it didn't involve the theory of "energy dumping".