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Old 04-08-2010, 08:47 AM
Dmay Dmay is offline
 
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Originally Posted by JustinC View Post
I think they are unethical. I will explain(I am useing easy numbers no actual) Say you shoot a 180 grain barns it has 1500 lbs of energy when it hits a dear but blows right through how much energy is put in to the animal? 5-100lbs of energy. As fo the same bullet but a berger goes in 3"
and blows up.That deer or what ever you shot just got 1500lbs of energy.I will bet it is dead on impact.Your barnes unless through the sholders just make a cut but not all the internal damadge as the other so it is not dieing for some time.That is why I dont like copper bullets and bonded bullets the math and the use of then prove it all to well.I hope this make my point a little more clear.
Interesting theory I suppose, but in my experience it don't work that way. My experience with the X and TSX includes over twenty deer, several of which were just ribs/heart/lungs. While mathematically there may have been less energy expended, dead is dead.