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Old 10-29-2008 | 05:15 PM
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gleason.chapman
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Accuracy, Velocity - Energy - Penetration - Terminal Performance is theorder that works for me.
What about expansion and shoot thru, which is closely related to your penetration and energy and terminal performance, but not quite. Expansion gets you the big hole going out and the jello inside, shoot thru gets you blood trail. Agreed, Accuracy is #1, penetration is #2, #3 is expansion and number 4 is shoot thru gives you terminal performance in my mind. We all know bullets that don't penetrate, begins wih a P and end with a t, and we all know bullets that don't expand well, begins with an S and ends with an e, and we all know ones that do all 4 of these things and they time and time again give us he termainal performance. Maybe no fragmentation, but that gets to penetration and shoot thru.
Accuracy 2" is very good, lower is better
penetration at least 12"
expansion at least 1.75x bullet diameter
shoot thru is obvious it is either there or not
no fragmentation at least 75 or 80% of origonal weight
terminal performance most are boom flops or <= 50 yards tracking.

I think that is a ML bullet. I can think of some that can do it all. We all know what they are also.
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