Enough gun

[Treeman]

Understood. For the record I wasn't accusing you. It was a general observation by someone who gets mouthy at people in the field who treat animals with disrespect and cruelty. In the hands of someone who shoots a lot of animals an 'iffy' calibre isn't the same as for a typist muppet like me. 
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And this why i want to know. The last thing I need is for little Mary Anne to shoot, loose and be put off for life because her first buck mad e noises, or simply bled some and ran off.
Terminal ballistics has been a fascination of mine since my first Kudu (3 in a hour or two) with a .223.
I actually almost have like a mental chart in my head - dead, deader and deaderer, would never be able to explain it, but even mono bullets versus cup and core have a spot on the mental chart. The mono bullets kill slower than the cup and core, but that changes the smaller the caliber becomes, but mono's get better the bigger the caliber becomes.

[Newton]

Load up some of those heavy bullets - that will work with the rifles twist rate
Make up a bullet test bed / stop with a number of ( wet and soaked ) old telephone directories ( or similar )
Do some accuracy and penetration tests - will give a good approximation of effect on game
Get as close as possible before taking shot - from a comfortable steady rest

[Treeman]

Wet packs tell one nothing about a bullets terminal behaviour in living tissue, they do how ever serve the purpose of making a bullet recoverable for just to look at reasons.

[Newton]

Wet packs tell one nothing about a bullets terminal behaviour in living tissue, they do how ever serve the purpose of making a bullet recoverable for just to look at reasons.

Testing a bit better to give some sort of idea rather than shooting into the unknown ?
Be interesting to do a comparison
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