Ballistic Bull – Tough Bullets

By gunwriter Hunters have been the victim of the communication of bad information based on conjecture and good marketing. Possibly classifiable as unintentional deception, ballistic bullshit has been thrust upon hunters, online and in print. I doubt a gun writer exists who is not guilty – at one time or another – of this sin, myself included. It takes lots of dead animals, made that way by lots of different bullets, to learn the truth. Finn Aagaard, because he did not start writing until he had amassed lots of field experience, might be the only exception. Somewhere along the time line of reporting on the terminal performance of hunting bullets, it became trendy to espouse the importance of a bullet’s ability to hold together and retain all its weight. The accepted fact is that bullets doing this kill better. The truth is the only thing that can be gleaned from a bullet that holds together and retains all of its weight is that the bullet held together and retained all of its weight. Photos of recovered bullets tell very little about how well the bullet killed. In fact, a photo of a bullet pulled from a dead animal really only tells you …Read the Rest

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