Ok Gents heres what iam asking you to vote on,Not asking for any comments or quibbles and sure don't want a pissing match.Alright when hunting whitetail deer or mule deer or any animal simular of ,you be your own judge on that part, Would you like the'' Bullett'' to ''go through'' or ''stop in side'' the animal. Just vote as (go through) or (stop). I know this is an old debate so thats why iam just asking for a vote. Writers even if it was a free hunt,free gun,free ammo and you got paid,hillbillys,old boys from down south,gun makers from Or.,Wa.,Cal. and all other Gun nuts and Guild members give me a vote!
An exit wound is preferable, although sometimes bullets explicitly designed for deep penetration (smaller frontal area after expansion) don't kill quite as fast - they will kill eventually.
Vote: go through. - mike
Posts: 6653 | Location: Switzerland | Registered: 11 March 2002
Well that depends on the hunting conditions if it was on my own land where no one else is soupose to be go through on public land inside but for all safty reasons i think the best way to go is leave the bullet in the animmal. just my opinion.
Posts: 46 | Location: Friendship,Wis. USA | Registered: 18 November 2001
I'm going to be contrary and vote "Indifferent." I just want the bullet to KILL QUICK....and I've seen plenty that never exited and killed like the hammer of Thor. And I've seen some really spectacular tracking situations on animals where the bullet went completely thru.
Let's remember guys, it's not a broken rib or two that kills an animal.....but what the bullet does while it's INSIDE the animal. If a bullet is inside making sushi out of the heart and lungs, it won't matter if it exits or not. That animal is going to die and I've never seen one lost that was hit like that.
Tracking and following wounded game should NOT be part of any hunt.
Posts: 19677 | Location: New Mexico | Registered: 23 May 2002
Quote: Let's remember guys, it's not a broken rib or two that kills an animal.....but what the bullet does while it's INSIDE the animal. If a bullet is inside making sushi out of the heart and lungs, it won't matter if it exits or not. That animal is going to die and I've never seen one lost that was hit like that.
Tracking and following wounded game should NOT be part of any hunt.
True, BUT... not always possible or realistic.
Earlier this month, I shot a whitetail at about 60-70 yards. I had the rifle rested & was positive of my shot. At the shot he ran. My dad, who was beside me, looked at me like "Well?". I knew the deer was hit good, all we had to do was find him.
After a short wait, we went looking. We found him about 50-60 yards from where he stood at the shot.
Now, the interesting part. Luckily for me, he was standing on some open ground when I shot, and never made it into the woods again. Once we rounded a point of trees & over a small rise, there he was. I could see his tracks on the ground, so it was obvious where he had been running. BUT, not a single drop of blood was on the ground, anywhere. When I gutted him, I found that the bullet had taken off the top of the heart, along with all of the blood vessels attached there. So my aim was true. The bullet was under the far-side hide.
I sure wouldn't have wanted to look for that deer in thick stuff, or at night, or in the rain. I'm confident however that there would've been at least SOME blood on the ground if I had an exit hole (larger than the entrance hole).
As nice as it is to think that every deer will be poleaxed in his tracks, it's just not realistic. Sometimes, no matter how good the shot, we have to track, and I'll take all of the help I can get.
Depends on if I made a [[Hide Park Head Shot]] in the side of the a-- I would want it to stop and not ruin the other side. And the other depends on what it hit on the INSIDE if it went through.
