MidRoad
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Came across this article a few days ago and thought I would share it with you folks. I posted it in another thread,but wanted to make a post to share it so more folks may get a chance to read it . The article is about how Hardcast bullets with a good size meplat can be very effective even at lower velocities. There are a few charts with different velocity figures vs wound channel size. Excellent read and takes a more common sense approach.
http://www.beartoothbullets.com/tech_notes/archive_tech_notes.htm/61
While cartridge and firearms design engineers have artfully and successfully delivered a multitude of firearms and cartridges imminently suited to harvesting any game animal on planet earth, yes, there are times that nothing less than a fire-breathing revolver throwing bowling-ball dimensioned projectiles is not only comforting in hand, but imminently necessary. However, for the North American hunter confining his pursuits to the lower 48 states, this type of raw handgun horsepower simply isn’t necessary.
The purpose of this article is not to minimize the recent development of increasingly more powerful handguns and cartridges, but to take an honest and critical assessment of practical handgun hunting needs, and the attributes necessary for reliable, decisive and humane big game harvests.
http://www.beartoothbullets.com/tech_notes/archive_tech_notes.htm/61
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