{"id":12160,"date":"2015-09-30T15:37:31","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T15:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/?p=12160"},"modified":"2015-12-24T16:34:48","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T16:34:48","slug":"bullet-biographies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/bullet-biographies\/","title":{"rendered":"Bullet Biographies"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bullet-3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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 have shot. This, supported by clinical like testing in various medias, can give you an educated idea what a bullet\u00a0is capable of.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, all of our modern big game bullets are very good bullets. They key, like with any tool, is to use them properly. You can push some bullets too fast, others can impact too slow. They will all work as long as the guy using the rifle does not ask them to do things they were not intended to do. NRA’s American Hunter magazine – website<\/a> – is running a series of bullet biographies I have put together. There you can find my thoughts\u00a0on a variety of popular big game bullets. I’ve used all of them to take big game animals and I’ve tested them all in messy gooey stuff.<\/p>\n

Just follow the links below:<\/p>\n

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NOSLER PARTITION<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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REMINGTON CORE LOKT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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BARNES TIPPED TRIPLE\u00a0SHOCK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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REMINGTON ACCUTIP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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WINCHESTER POWER POINT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"BB-3\"<\/a>
BERGER VLD HUNTING<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"BB-11\"<\/a>
HORNADY INTERBOND<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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NOSLER ACCUBOND<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"BB-12\"<\/a>
HORNADY INTERLOCK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"BB-4\"<\/a>
NORMA ORYX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"BB-1\"<\/a>
BARNES TRIPLE SHOCK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"HFT-1\"<\/a>
HORNADY FLEX TIP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"F-3\"<\/a>
FEDERAL FUSION<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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LAPUA NATURALIS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"ELDX-1\"<\/a>
HORNADY ELD-X<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2522],"tags":[920,235,218,381],"class_list":["post-12160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hunt","tag-big-game-bullets","tag-bullet-testing","tag-hunting-bullets","tag-terminal-performance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5hujZ-3a8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13042,"url":"https:\/\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/ballistic-bull-tough-bullets\/","url_meta":{"origin":12160,"position":0},"title":"Ballistic Bull – Tough Bullets","author":"gunwriter","date":"March 3, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 Hunters have been the victim of the communication of bad information based on conjecture and good marketing. 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