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Explorer
On my last trip I decided to take advantage of my hunting license and harvest game to supplement my meals during and after the trip. I had some wonderful grouse and wild mushrooms fried in beer, but also took a deer.
Funny thing about the deer, it just so happened that I got close enough to a mule deer buck that I felt confident in taking it with my .40 caliber Glock. I shot it in the top of the head as it was grazing and it went down instantly. I was too far from camp to drag the entire deer, so I skinned it and cut all the muscles from the bone and put it in a sack.
Anyway, its common for muscles to twitch after killing a deer, but this was different. Every muscle seemed to be twitching during the whole boning out process - as if the deer was still alive. I could see right were the bullet entered the deers head so I knew it was dead, but it just seemed odd. Finally the twitching stopped and I proceeded to skin the head and to my amazement the bullet didn't even penetrate the skull! it didn't glance off, (it was a direct shot) it just failed to penetrate the bone. The bullet was a winchester hollow point and it completely disintegrated under the hide leaving a circular dimple on the bone but no hole! Poor deer was knocked out while I was stealing his meat!
Just thought I would share that with those of you interested in ballistics as it has changed my opinion on using hollow points. I think modern hollow points are way too soft and could fail in many situations (including self defense) I think I'll switch to nosler partitions for better performance.
Funny thing about the deer, it just so happened that I got close enough to a mule deer buck that I felt confident in taking it with my .40 caliber Glock. I shot it in the top of the head as it was grazing and it went down instantly. I was too far from camp to drag the entire deer, so I skinned it and cut all the muscles from the bone and put it in a sack.
Anyway, its common for muscles to twitch after killing a deer, but this was different. Every muscle seemed to be twitching during the whole boning out process - as if the deer was still alive. I could see right were the bullet entered the deers head so I knew it was dead, but it just seemed odd. Finally the twitching stopped and I proceeded to skin the head and to my amazement the bullet didn't even penetrate the skull! it didn't glance off, (it was a direct shot) it just failed to penetrate the bone. The bullet was a winchester hollow point and it completely disintegrated under the hide leaving a circular dimple on the bone but no hole! Poor deer was knocked out while I was stealing his meat!
Just thought I would share that with those of you interested in ballistics as it has changed my opinion on using hollow points. I think modern hollow points are way too soft and could fail in many situations (including self defense) I think I'll switch to nosler partitions for better performance.