Thread: Hammer Damage

Originally Posted by Flyblown

@Tahr why do you suppose the Hammer tends to cause so much meat bruising?

or is it simply the velocity at relatively short range?

I really don't know. The maker has written an article about how the shock travels in front of the unexpanded shank and creates the damage.

The blood shock is no worse than some other bullets (e.g.7mm 120 grn NBT) but with these you get fantastic penetration, shock, and damage. It seems.
Ive shot about 20 animals with them and everyone has dropped (but the 60 yards one last evening did run about 20 yards).

Just interesting really. I will be banging on about something else soon. There's a bit of Bunji in all of us I guess