please take everything i write as it is meant, as a discussion, not an attack.
ballisticians have been striving for centuries to design the perfect projectile.
The PRB ain't it!
that said what a prb does supply is a projectile that if sufficiently propelled will upset and many times will increase its size (while traveling through vitals) half again. I have recovered .50's that expanded into .75's. I have recovered .54 rb that expanded to .877 inch.
I am not the brightest bulb in the lamp, but seams to me if a victim has a three quarter inch hole leaking under pressure, vast tissue damage is not needed. I have a varmint rifle that squirts a 35g explosive bullet right at 4025 fps. thin skinned recipients of this scooter tend to vaporize.
I once loaded some 40g frangible in a old standard 30-06 using sabots. one out of 3 vaporized 15 feet from the muzzle. chrono'ed them at 4600+ fps. contact with these created a red mist.
My old mentor worked in development for Roy Weatherby. My buddy hunted with a CVA .50 mountain rifle (which i still have) and never needed more that one .50 prb to make his kills. Largest animal he, (and I) have taken was Moose. the 1/2 inch hole looked like a garden hose on my moose.
when the oil pressure drops to zero, the brain throws a rod and that's it.
I used a .30 cal 165g Combined Technology in a .308 one time. it was designed to fragment like a grenade. it did. where that buck usually had a heart, lungs, diaphragm , and liver, was a cavity full of jelly. only used it once. there is a long distance between dead, and destroyed.
When a PRB starts its wound channel out at say, .50, and exits with a .75 inch channel, to me thats meat on the table.
I too have been infected with the Magnumitis bug, but have recovered. mostly. wanna see pictures of a nice pre64 model 70 375 H&H?
