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Old 12-04-2018, 12:43 PM
AndrewM AndrewM is offline
 
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Originally Posted by elkhunter11 View Post
An expanding bullet is designed to create a large wound channel, tearing blood vessels through a wound channel several times the diameter. of the bullet. The more blood vessels it tears, the quicker the animal bleeds out. In the case of a bullet not having enough velocity to expand, it simply doesn't tear as many blood vessels, so the animal bleeds out much more slowly. My moose still died, it just took longer.
Now you are agreeing with me. And less expansion due to high velocity you have the same condition. More energy transferred to the animal the larger the damage. Get it to the vitals and bang flop. Transfer it through the animal and you are following little spits of blood if you are lucky.