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Originally Posted by Walleyes
Very interesting stuff here guys some good points.
But surely you all must agree that the energy released from a bullet has some effect on the killing of an animal. How about a full frontal chest shot on a deer. Are you going to tell me that the shock from the impact in no way affects the heart even if it is not a heart shot.
Lets take it to the extreme here. What happens when an animal is hit by a vehicle. There is no entry, no exit wound nor wound channel its just pure energy that stops the vitals from working. Now with the right bullet with enough energy surely we are seeing some of those same effects..
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This actualy reminds me of a hunt I was on two years ago in 400. We called in a 5 piont bull elk up out of a drianage and he came out of the bush about 70 yards away and my buddy shot him twice broad side in the center of the shoulder with a 308 loaded with some rem corelock factory ammo and droped him on the second shot. When we knocked the guts out of him there was no blood in the chest cavity at all. When we skined him out at camp we saw that the two shots were about 4 inches apart(the width of my hand) and dead center of the shoulder blade(a good 6" below the spine). The shoulder was broken but there's no way that bull blead to death. I never seen this before in fact i excpected to find a lung shoot when we were gutting him. I think that those core locks opened up to fast and just pounded him in the ribs hard enough that it killed him. Must sound like i'm right out of er here but what else could have killed him?