Originally Posted by
hunters_life
Velocity means nothing without the other 2 factors Ridge Runner and you know it. Low weight and poor bullet construction will lead to limited penetration. And that means limiting your shots to low resistance target areas of the animal. When you are having to take away 60% of your target area on a big game animal, you might just want to reconsider your cartridge/bullet choices.
been doing it long enough to know, as velocity goes up, bullet construction has to also. however the lowest resistance shot you can take on game is the broadside lung shot, at most you have to penetrate fur and one rib and your smack-dab in the middle of "boiler room city" there goes that factor, now the weight, ok do you know how bullets are made? do you know that generaly the makers use the same cup for several bullets? and that the lighter bullets made with that cup have a thicker jacket because its not drawn out as long? a good cup core bullet will do well till the IV (impact velocity) exceeds 3200 fps, above that I like the nosler accubond, now the difference between an accubond and a ballistic tip? just like a plumber fluxes copper pipe so the solder sticks to it, the jacket is fluxed so the lead core sticks to it, so it may become just a twisted mashed up mass, it stays together retaining weight, long as it has weight it keeps penetrating. have never recovered an accubond yet, except for one I shot int a tree.
RR