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Originally Posted by Nyksta
According to your idea on how things work, a bow and arrow would be more effective than any normal hunting rifle.... SD is not all that matters. Monometal bullets vs lead soft point also disproves your SD arguement.
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Probably 60-70% of my big game has been taken with a bow. It’s no different than with rifles. Hit the good stuff and they are close. Hit them elsewhere and it’s a win some lose some affair. Ke/momentum/weight/diam. All pretty useless numbers to gauge kill potential...seeing as most cartridges are more than enough and you want to compare them properly, use s.d. And impact velocity as your main measures, that’s what tells you what’s going to happen given an appropriate bullet construction for game intended. Maybe that’s the problem?...bowhunting teaches you plenty. But also bell and 1100 elephants or the 53 gr .22 cal from a .22-250 out penetrating a 375 h&h etc. Some numbers matter, some really don’t.