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[Michael Tinker Pearce]

(deleted) I don't need to be in the middle of this. Carry on, gentlemen.

 

[CraigC]

When theory and results disagree it's never the results that are wrong.

It's not theory. Folks have been hunting with the .357 for 80 friggin' years. There is nothing new here. Just some specialty pistol guys trying to make one out of a revolver, having no knowledge of what came before them. It might be new to Ernie and Chris but it's not new to the sport.

 

[Michael Tinker Pearce]

It's not theory. Folks have been hunting with the .357 for 80 friggin' years.

I deleted that post because I see both sides and, more importantly, I don't have a dog in this hunt. I've been known to use a 6" model 27 in close terrain where 25-30 yards would be a long shot but that's the limit of my experience. Time for me to bow out.

 

[CraigC]

I deleted that post because I see both sides and, more importantly, I don't have a dog in this hunt. I've been known to use a 6" model 27 in close terrain where 25-30 yards would be a long shot but that's the limit of my experience. Time for me to bow out.

Used within that context, it works fine. I was going to use a 6" GP this season, after muzzleloader season. It's when ranges start exceeding 50yds that you start playing with fire.

 

[xphunter]

It's not ballistic gel, it's SIMTEST. It's denser and tougher than a pronghorn and as such, a bullet can expand in it and not expand on live flesh. Here's a hint, a bullet that fails to expand in SIMTEST, isn't going to do any better on a live critter.

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Yet, we have 5 dead animals.
Two of which (my 2 does @ 85 & 99 yards), I intentionally stayed away from the shoulders to the point I would call them poorly placed shots. Didn't hit bone, yet it performed well
I choose the performance I saw on my deer and lopes over your gel.
Even if it was "not any better" the dead deer and antelope haven't figured it out yet.
Back-channels discussion...Enjoy your chat times.

 

[xphunter]

Michael,
I appreciate your post.

Primarily have been using using voice to text, as I had surgery on my right shoulder late last week.
So my apologies for typos. When I do type and run a mouse left-handed it becomes time consuming

 

[MrBorland]

Back-channels discussion...Enjoy your chat times.

Agreed. Points and counter-points made on the ethics of long-range handgun hunting. While the latter's a reasonable concern, it's been addressed and off-topic for this thread to boot. I'm going to close this one, since my spidey sense tells me we've pretty much covered anything on-topic.