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Stopping Power is to stop or knock over an animal.

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12 February 2002, 23:21
Overkill
Stopping Power is to stop or knock over an animal.
Now after kents test i know that a bullet can knock over a animal.

The barrel weight about 600-650 pounds and fell over, and kent use the 500 jeffery whit 440 grains bullets.

Now if a moose weight 600 pounds, and i shoot the moose at 50 yards whit a 585 nyati 750 grains bullets at 2500 f/S then the moose are going to be knocked down.


And you guys have said all the time that a big bore dont can knock over a animal....!

You guys dont know much about the real hunting world...!

13 February 2002, 00:46
Overkill
And i think that if you use 900 grains bullets in 577 T-REX it would be more knock down power in them than in the 750 grains bullet. Even if the 750 grains bullet have more energy because of the higer speed.

I think the 900 grains bullet will hit harder than a 750 grains bullet even if it have less energy...!

13 February 2002, 00:48
Pete E
Overkill,

I have shot many Roe deer which have a live wieght of around 70lbs with my .308..some fall over on the spot but many have a death run/leap which can be anything from a few feet to 100 yards...

With all due respect, tests such as kents don't prove anything....

Peter

13 February 2002, 06:12
<Daryl Elder>
I don't see, being as ignorant as I am, how a bullet weighing as much as 1000 grains can "knock" over an animal weighing even 100lbs.. A bullet acts much like a hypodermic needle, no? There isn't much resistance, not enough to move the target object. A bullet wouldn't work very well if that was indeed the principle. Please, correct me if I am wrong. Every day, more and more, I realize how ignorant I am and I can only strive to become more aware.
13 February 2002, 06:25
carcano91
quote:
Originally posted by Overkill:
And i think that if you use 900 grains bullets in 577 T-REX it would be more knock down power in them than in the 750 grains bullet.

Sure, dear Overkiller. And when you once do your military service, you gonna be a tanker, with a real BIIIIG GUN that makes WOOOM and topples lots of things over.

*pat*

yours,
Carcano

(PzBtl 333, Celle-Scheuen, 1982/83; we had Leopard II with the 120 mm smoothbore gun)

[This message has been edited by carcano91 (edited 02-12-2002).]

13 February 2002, 06:32
<Rune>
Carcano91, in this case we will have a "section A" for sure:-)
13 February 2002, 09:50
<SaxonPig>
Not sure what this barrel test was all about, but Newton's Third Law holds that for every action there is an opposite, and equal, reaction. Therefore, any firearm that launched a projectile that could physically knock over a 600 pound object would also knock over a 600 man holding it during firing.