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Why energy numbers don't tell the whole story - my hunting lesson
Shot a buck with my 30-06 last season - perfect heart/lung shot, turned everything to mush, but he still ran 400 yards in 10 seconds before dropping. These animals are just tough! Got me thinking about ballistics though. A .22-250 and .45-70 have similar energy on paper, but one's for coyotes and the other drops grizzlies. Energy formulas overweight velocity - if speed killed everything, we'd all be using .17 magnums at 5000 FPS! Big bore cartridges don't need to expand like smaller rounds do. They start big and hit hard. What's your take on energy vs bullet diameter for hunting effectiveness? #hunting #Ballistics #HuntingAmmo
2025-07-28
art logue
To me, it's alot like horsepower and torque. It takes the right combo depending on the job at hand.
07-28
Dresser, WI
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Frank Mills II
“ There’s no replacement for displacement“… Elmer Keith
07-28
Westfield, MA
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Robert Prestridge
I have used from 50 cal to 22 cal and what I have noticed is it about shot placement.
07-29
Sierra Vista, AZ
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Jack Vehar
I used 30:06 for years. Reload my own. Found out many years ago 165 grain bullets( now I use Hornady interlocks) takes deer down quickly with less damage than 150 grain bullets. I’ve been lucky to take 2 bull moose in Newfoundland with same load!
Neither went 25 yds!
07-28
Holbrook, PA
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Curtis Cox
Big hole lets a lot of air in and blood out
07-28
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Charlotte McKnight
I've shot deer with a 30/30 ,30/06 ,270 45/70 all in the neck and they drop like a sack of potatoes
07-28
Tawas City, MI
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Walter Baldree
Never used anything bigger than a .243 on whitetail deer not a one of them has ever run they drop right where they were standing.
07-28
Paris, TX
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Wayne Dillon
I took a 60 inch moose in the Canadian Yukon using my Savage High Country 30-06 using 168 grain Barnes copper bullets I reloaded. Died in his tracks.
07-28
Clarksville, TN
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James Griggs
No deer is running 400 yards in 10 seconds
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Carbondale, IL
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Max D. Gilfillan
I always eat the deer I shoot. To avoid tearing up alot of the edible parts of the deer, one shot placed between the head & the body trunk with a medium to high velocity bullet from a 270 win, or a 243 win, or even a 22-250 Rem, will do the job very nicely. I learned this from a lifetime of deer hunting.
07-29
Tyler, TX
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