You won't regret it!!! I have 2 SS that are 16x and I have no complaints. They do just what they are supposed to do-track well and hold zero all day every day. If you wouldn't have gone with the SS, my next personal choice would have been a VX-3i. The fact of the matter is that you just get...
Was just thinking a little deeper into the energy transfer thing. I think the exact formula for energy transfer would be:
energy transfer = (1/2m_1v_1^2) - (1/2m_2v_2^2),
where m_1 and m_2 are the bullet's initial and final weights respectively and v_1 and v_2 are the bullet's entry and exit...
I recovered the heart from the deer I shot with a VLD this year also, but I purposefully aimed back from the heart so as not to hit it. Insides were definitely soup though. I can see where TheDudeAbides is coming from though. I actually just had that heart last night for dinner.
Bergers are designed to "unload" the majority of their energy into the animal and not the dirt behind them. How is that not more lethal? I shoot Hornady interlocks in my .308 too, but I'm just saying. Dumping the bullet's energy while still in the animal makes the most sense. Ideally, I want...
Just started shooting 168 gr. Berger VLDs this year in the new 7mm Rem Mag. Like Lawnboy was saying, I also take lung shots a good bit off the shoulder with these, and so far the Bergers are tack-driving and putting meat in the freezer. Got a pass through at under 50 yards too. So, it's not...
If you would have read my whole post, you would have seen where I said I have never killed an elk yet but many, many, whitetails with neck shots. In episode 1 season 1 of On Your Own Adventures, Uncle Larry shoots a bull in the neck (a good bit off center too), and it doesn't run for miles. In...