Thread: Minimum impact velocity of Berger's?

Originally Posted by crnkin

But the slower the impact velocity the more likely a pass through is? Maybe you wrote that backwards.

I've shot quite a few goats now with them, and although some were bang flops, all of them were complete bullet failures.

The diameter of the blow up would have been about 8-10 inches, penetration would be say 1/3 of a goat tops, like 4 inches, definitely no exit wound, not a shit show.

A couple of the goats were running away with vitals hanging out, then loss of blood made them faint, die etc.

This is all at 2700 fps, ranges from 20y-450y.

The goats down here aren't big either, ive never seen horns over a foot. I had exactly the same experience with the 140g SST's, and Adam did too as far as I know.

I think the 208's ideal impact velocity would be 1600-2000 fps, a pretty small range, but obviously depends on the animal too, a bigger animal can have a slower impact velocity and vise versa.

Just my take on it. I've seen the 300g hybrid bergers perform side by side with my amax, same animal, same shooting position, same velocity, perfect expansion and loss of jacket on the 300g, and over 2 feet of penetration from the core. Amax exploded immediately.

Amazing those 300g bergers, amazing.

Chris

Taht shouldnt go in the same sentnce

That cham for example still had pass through easy with 2320fps according to my cal, i havnt had very many maybe 4 or 5 animals that have never exited 2 where reds shot front on just over 650m an both pilss got stuck in the rear end so still almost passed through the long length

The 105gr amax in 243 passes through goats an drops them like flys..........

Next tahr trip ill cut them up an do some dirty photos