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HiBC · December 23, 2018, 08:07 PM

pblanc,my experience is with big game hunting cartridges.I doubt you would operate on anyone who had been hit in the big part with a 160 gr Sierra fired from a 7mm Rem Mag.They went to the morgue.
Exit wound the size of a football.Far shoulde and blade blown loose except for some hide and string. Meat jellied,bubbled,and bloodshot up into the backstraps.

I use a .257 now. I don't think any shotgun load can do the massive trauma of a big game high vel expanding hunting load.

If they enter the chest cavity,the heartb and lungs become unidentifiable bloody soup chunks.

I'm not disrespecting your observations.I hope you don't have to deal with what I have seen.

December 23, 2018, 08:07 PM	#10
HiBC Senior Member Join Date: November 13, 2006 Posts: 8,283	pblanc,my experience is with big game hunting cartridges.I doubt you would operate on anyone who had been hit in the big part with a 160 gr Sierra fired from a 7mm Rem Mag.They went to the morgue. Exit wound the size of a football.Far shoulde and blade blown loose except for some hide and string. Meat jellied,bubbled,and bloodshot up into the backstraps. I use a .257 now. I don't think any shotgun load can do the massive trauma of a big game high vel expanding hunting load. If they enter the chest cavity,the heartb and lungs become unidentifiable bloody soup chunks. I'm not disrespecting your observations.I hope you don't have to deal with what I have seen.