Originally Posted by
rockport
Unfortunately a lot of those bullets stop at the far hide when they are designed to give you the best of both worlds. I get a lot of that.
I'd rather they error on the side of pass through myself and mine do if I shoot straight broadside but quartering I get a lot of bullets stopped by the far hide.
Of course the animals range from 50lbs to 275lbs so thats also a factor. Its the big boys with any quarter at all that I often don't get through the far hide.
The buck I shot this year had the ole far side lump with just a little quarter and no significant bone hit. He was a puddle inside and didn't go out of sight but I'd still rather they cut the slits just a little shallower....not much but just a little.
Go through that a lot as well Rock. The large diameter of slugs that we have to use here have a HUGE meplat typically so that is a ton of initial resistance right from the get go. I remember some of the old "punkinballs" from days past that had a harder alloy, almost like a hard cast. Those puppies would truck through a deer and barely even slow down!! Those were some shoulder busting slugs.