bassjam
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I'm in the "it doesn't matter camp". I've had a 35 yard shot at a doe push a 1oz slug from her vitals to her spine. She dropped like a sack of potatoes, but then got up on her front legs and tried to drag herself as her hind legs were paralyzed. After dispatching her I retraced my line of shot and found a 1/4" low hanging branch cleanly snapped about 5 yards from where I had been sitting. In the first light of dawn I didn't notice it.
Newton's laws of motion pretty much say that there will always be some deflection. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. A heavy bullet may deflect less than a light one when hitting an equally sized piece of brush, but even a fraction of a degree of deflection can mean the difference between a hit and a miss.
Newton's laws of motion pretty much say that there will always be some deflection. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. A heavy bullet may deflect less than a light one when hitting an equally sized piece of brush, but even a fraction of a degree of deflection can mean the difference between a hit and a miss.