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Originally Posted by Grizzly Adams
I guess, I beg to differ.  One of my favorite experiments.  Take two, one gallon plastic milk jugs, fill with water and cap. Shoot one with a .22 LR and the other with a .223. Then, tell me there isn't very much more energy transfer, in the latter.
Grizz |
I think I see what you are getting at.
Chuck used to sign off with:
"Its holes that kill, not energy" or something like that.
I believe that the energy transfer of a bullet in the animals tissue (lungs/heart) has a lot to do with tissue destruction, bleeding and shock and death.
I have put holes through deer with a patched round ball from a muzzleloader and the deer eventually bleed to death. The same hit with a "high velocity expanding bullet" does more damage and kills faster.
I have shot a couple of deer with 250 grain bullets from a .35 whelen and the bullets went threw making holes without imparting much energy to the tissue. These deer died but not very fast or dramatically.