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Old 12-13-2012, 03:34 PM
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Topgun 3006
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Champlain Islander---I agree with you if the minus 1.5" figure means below line of sight because the bullet is never below the muzzle after it is fired. To answer your statement about only punching paper at 350 yards I punched in the figures in his example in the Hornady Ballistic Calculator that is available on line and it shows that bullet would still have 1512 ft/lbs of energy at 400 yards and 1268 ft/lbs at 500. That means based on the old school of experts that feel a bullet should have 1000 at POI for a deer and 1500 at POI for an elk that it would be good on deer at 500+ and out to 400 for elk. Some feel those numbers are higher than needed at POI to kill those animals and if that's the case the distances would even be further for both animals. It's not that the bullet won't do the job at those distances, but rather if a person can routinely put the bullet in the vitals at those distances.

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