Originally Posted by
Muley Hunter
I don't get this? Honest about what? As far as I know. he hasn't lost an animal to a PB. You can't say they aren't accurate.
Honest about how there are many-many better options than the PB. He's shot the Thor and knows they are far superior. Honestly, I'd respect him a lot more if he'd just say 'I like Powerbelts because they're a CVA product'.
Originally Posted by
Muley Hunter
I honestly believe that a lot of the negative stories you read about PB's are hunter error. Someone claims they made a perfect shot and the animal ran away and was never found. Why should we believe they made a perfect shot if the animal got a way? He might have hit it in the butt. Butt shots don't kill.
I have a huntin' buddy who used PBs for probably 10 years. I've spent more nights than I care to remember tracking horrible blood trails or waiting for crows to find his deer the next day. We recovered most of them (maybe 1 or 2 we didn't find) and every one of them should NEVER have been that hard to track if he was shooting a better bullet. Lack of penetration and fragmentation was always the factor in his deer. 1 deer may be a fluke. 10 years of them is concrete evidence.
FWIW, last year he switched to Barnes and said he'll never shoot another PB again. He now jokes that if you want a pass through w/PBs you have to shoot them in the liver (this was based on his only pass through he ever received shooting PBs)