PRB question-
PRB question-
12-04-2011, 06:26 PM
#2
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada
Posts: 1,392
ummm,
PA Conicals is about as close as it comes.
http://www.hornady.com/store/50-Cal-240-gr-PA-Conical/
HA
PA Conicals is about as close as it comes.
http://www.hornady.com/store/50-Cal-240-gr-PA-Conical/
HA
12-04-2011, 07:26 PM
#4
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 5,425
Not needed, you ever see what a round ball looks like after it hits a deer???
It expands, just like a hollow point does...Round balls are made of lead which is soft enough to mark with your fingernail...They expand quite well without a hollow point to help them...
It expands, just like a hollow point does...Round balls are made of lead which is soft enough to mark with your fingernail...They expand quite well without a hollow point to help them...
12-05-2011, 03:38 AM
#9
Typical Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: The "empire" state-NY
Posts: 583
As soon as I can get them up, I have a couple photos of experimental shots I took & reason for the query.
MuleyHunter-that's one thing I wonder, if the point must hit first upon impact to provide expansion or not.
The deer I myself have taken w/ PRB have had entry & exit wounds not much larger than either .54 or .50 at distances of 75 yds+. I recall that my first ever had the entry between two ribs, through the heart about 1/3 way up, and exited between two ribs as well. .54 sized hole all the way through, I ate the heart as always.
The oddest thing about that deer was that after the shot he didn't run but sort of trotted not for the wood line but straight down the middle of the field,stumbled at the top of a little rise and landed on his back w/ antlers stuck in the soft ground- almost 90 yds,iirc.
MuleyHunter-that's one thing I wonder, if the point must hit first upon impact to provide expansion or not.
The deer I myself have taken w/ PRB have had entry & exit wounds not much larger than either .54 or .50 at distances of 75 yds+. I recall that my first ever had the entry between two ribs, through the heart about 1/3 way up, and exited between two ribs as well. .54 sized hole all the way through, I ate the heart as always.
The oddest thing about that deer was that after the shot he didn't run but sort of trotted not for the wood line but straight down the middle of the field,stumbled at the top of a little rise and landed on his back w/ antlers stuck in the soft ground- almost 90 yds,iirc.
12-05-2011, 04:00 AM
#10
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 414
The oddest thing about that deer was that after the shot he didn't run but sort of trotted not for the wood line but straight down the middle of the field,stumbled at the top of a little rise and landed on his back w/ antlers stuck in the soft ground- almost 90 yds,iirc.