The ONLY times I've not gotten a complete pass through... I had a partially fouled load (I could hear the "BANG" sounded odd) and it stopped on the inside of the skin on the far side of the buck, and when I shot a deer in the shoulder and the ball was stopped by a very large bone.
The other thing I sometimes hear is "the ball stopped in the animal therefore it transferred all of its energy".....
While that is true... if two bullets of the same diameter hit the deer in the same spot, and travel identical paths, the ball with a bit more powder load at the beginning, that exits the animal, delivered as much "energy" as the bullet that stopped. The bullet that exited simply had "more than enough" to do the same "work". The ball that stopped was not "better" and perhaps was worse than the ball that exited.
It's been my observation, albeit only on Midatlantic whitetails, that putting holes on the outside of both sides of the deer from a ball impacting both lungs, puts the deer down better than the ball that stays inside (on a broadside lungs shot). That has been born out by the amount of tracking that I had to do on the one time it happened to me, and on the several occasions when I've had to help other folks find their deer and found the ball didn't pass through on a broadside shot.
LD
The other thing I sometimes hear is "the ball stopped in the animal therefore it transferred all of its energy".....
While that is true... if two bullets of the same diameter hit the deer in the same spot, and travel identical paths, the ball with a bit more powder load at the beginning, that exits the animal, delivered as much "energy" as the bullet that stopped. The bullet that exited simply had "more than enough" to do the same "work". The ball that stopped was not "better" and perhaps was worse than the ball that exited.
It's been my observation, albeit only on Midatlantic whitetails, that putting holes on the outside of both sides of the deer from a ball impacting both lungs, puts the deer down better than the ball that stays inside (on a broadside lungs shot). That has been born out by the amount of tracking that I had to do on the one time it happened to me, and on the several occasions when I've had to help other folks find their deer and found the ball didn't pass through on a broadside shot.
LD