Expansion - Too Little Or Too Much?
A much-discussed topic among hunters is terminal bullet performance. Much of it based on bullets recovered from game animals, and too often on a single recovered bullet.
A nicely mushroomed bullet lodged under the hide on the far side of the animal is often thought to have given ideal performance. The bullet had adequate penetration, good expansion, spening its entire energy within the body.
When this happens the bullet and load is highly rated in terms of killing power and its use is recommended to all and sundry. Alas, the expression "killing power" can never be taken to mean precisely what the words imply. More correctly, the word "relative" should precede the term "killing power," as the power to kill is a latent property entirely dependent on vague, indefinable conditions and circumstances which should be taken into consideration. For example: what was the animal’s size and species? At which angle did the bullet enter and how much tissue and bone did it penetrate? At what range was the animal shot? What was the bullet’s impact velocity? How much damage was there along the wound channel?
Judging bullets performance on one or two game
