Originally Posted by
super_hunt54
Ding Ding Ding and folks we have a winning question!! Same one entered my smoking brain last night! Say I went for my favorite High shoulder shot (with firearm)? Not a very liquid environment there if I went high just going for spine. Just dense muscle tissue and bone. Now granted an animals body isn't like a bag of blood but the organs and arteries provide a pretty liquid source for hydraulic operation but a shot like a high shoulder wouldn't provide very much liquid. Not if I went about 2 inches higher than normal anyway.
I shot a nice smaller antlered buck high through the neck and out just under the spine the bullet exited the side over the shoulder with a nice neat hole. I am sure the petals were off. At least one of the petals pierced the spinal cord the cow dropped like a rock. And the wound bled out as the heart actually kept pumping for awhile (really not a good story but it happened.
There is not a lot of liquid up there but enough...
Here is another example of a deer shot high with a Lehigh Bloodline. Got the spinal cord again with a petal. I really did feel bad for this buck. I shot him out of frustration while hunting elk - he was a target of opportunity - but shot at 60 yards with a Lehigh .458x305 gr. 45-70 rifle bullet in a MMP Orange sabot.
Also and Tom should have remembered, he has shot sandwich zip lock bags with water in them and a paper target behind the bag - the bullet and the petals exited the bag with the bullet in the center and the petals radiating out from the bullet hole in the paper target.