Hunters have been the victim of the communication of bad information based on conjecture and good marketing. Possibly classifiable as unintentional deception, ballistic bullshit has been thrust upon hunters, online and in print. I doubt a gun writer exists who is not guilty – at one time or another – of this sin, myself included. It takes lots of dead animals, made that …
I’ve been fascinated with the terminal performance of bullets ever since I shot my first whitetail deer. I realized early on that you cannot reach definitive conclusions about bullet performance by looking at the exit wounds or the recovered bullets. To know what really happens you have to shoot lots of stuff with lots of bullets and look inside the animals you …
My first claim to fame – if you want to call it that – was working as the compiling author of the book, Rifle Bullets for the Hunter. It was without question the definitive source for hunting bullet information and, I got to work with some very respected gun writers: Boddington, Barsness, Campbell, Havilland, Spomer and, yes, even Bryce Towsley. Unfortunately, that book …
