I've been reading hunting accounts for the last few days, since, obviously, I want to go hunting myself, and I've noticed a thing - when people discuss the choice of a bullet, they often bring up a problem of hematomas that ruin the meat where the wound is.
So, the question is how do I minimise them? Should I use lighter bullets? Which weight is the best for which kind of game? What about shotgun slug weight, how do I find out that enough is enough?
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Best is to use a spear and go through the anus and straight through the mouth then rotisserie it,
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I heard bullets that will fragment less like a copper barnes will leave more edible meat plus no chance of biting down on metal at the dunner table but that's all marginal stuff. Maybe them TUIs would performeven better if legal.
To minimise meat lost to bloodshotting, you want to use a slower bullet, ideally slower than 2100fps. To retain penetration, that slower bullet should also be heavier. The venerable 30-30, 32 Winchester Special, and 45-70 are excellent deer cartridges that will reliably drop a deer without spoiling too much meat. For smaller game such as yearlings, possum, squirrel and rabbit, the 32-20 fills the same role admirably, and - if the hunter does his part - will also cleanly take down a deer.
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Thank you for your kind words. As you have correctly surmised, I grew up in the country, poor, having to help pa hunt to put meat on the table. It was only through the support of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation that I was able to attend and graduate from college.
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So, would a 180 grain subsonic .30-06 do the trick?
only if the bullet expands at impact velocity. there are two schools of thought, either a pass through with a good blood trail, or a bullet that will explosively expand near or inside the rib cage and do as much damage as possible to the heart and lungs without a perforation. velocity is what causes bloodshot meat, but like other people have said you can get double lung pass throughs without ruining meat. if you have a very accurate gun and a stable shooting platform you can take neck shots
No, you do want something that will make a decent-sized hole, and a 30-06 bullet will be designed for much higher velocities. What would work much better in a 30-06 is a 220gr bullet at ~2400fps, that bullet would be designed to expand at those sort of velocities. But a whitetail deer doesn't need that much medicine, which is why 30-30 has been such a good deer cartridge for over a century, it has the mild velocity to prevent bloodshotting, with bullets that are designed to perform at those velocities.
Oddly enough, the .375 H&H is apparently also an extremely good deer cartridge, the traditional load for it is a 300gr bullet @ 2500fps, for soft skinned game the bullet would be a soft point, for dangerous game it would be a solid. I used to live next door to a professional hunter that did culling for deer leases, and he used a CZ in .375 H&H, he used round nosed solids and said it just dropped mule deer on the spot, knocking a golf-ball sized hole from one end to the other, but didn't destroy the meat around the hole. And because those heavy bullets tracked straight as an arrow through the animal he didn't really have to worry about the angle, if he aimed at the heart then it went through the heart, even if it had to get there from the ass end. A round nosed soft point would knock a soda-can sized hole through the deer.
Thanks for a long reply. Sounds very interesting.
Chest-shot into the heart and lungs, minimal meat loss (unless you want to go 'tribal' and eat its heart to absorb the soul ofc) except for a few missing ribs on the rack.
>So, the question is how do I minimise them? Should I use lighter bullets? Which weight is the best for which kind of game? What about shotgun slug weight, how do I find out that enough is enough?
Full metal jacket to penetrate the heart and lungs, just like with other bullet types, but with least damage to the meat.
Your shooting skill and knowledge of anatomy form the basis of shot placement, PRACTICE is the greatest "bullet" here, to be honest.
>Full metal jacket
Illegal for hunting in most places. Also shit terminal ballistics.
The main trouble with FMJ is that it just pokes small holes, an animal may run around for quite long time.
the ruined meat from a bullet wound is very minimal, not enough to worry about. I always use a .270 with hollow points and I always go for heart/lung shots.