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Backcountry Hunting Podcast


Apr 17, 2020

SHOW NOTES

What type of bullets allow you to "eat right up to the hole?"

Listeners questions and comments

MEAT DAMAGE: TWO SOURCES

  • Extreme impact velocity
    • Hydraulic shock
    • High-velocity cartridges
    • Light-for-caliber bullets, pushed extremely fast
    • Extreme-BC bullets, pushed fast
    • Animal matter's effect on bullets
    • Low-velocity impact dynamics
  • Extreme-expansion bullets
    • What stresses a bullet during impact
    • Fragmenting on impact increases shock transfer
    • "Soft" bullets rupture and fragment. Maximum meat damage results
    • Tough, controlled-expansion bullets hold together and penetrate. Less meat damage results
  • Bullet placement for minimal meat damage
    • The behind-the-shoulder shot
    • The on-the-shoulder shot
    • Species-dependent preferences
  • How to field-dress and process around bloodshot meat
  • Is bullet-related meat damage ok? 
    • When it results in a faster, more humane kill
    • When the bullet that causes it makes you a more capable hunter

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