...now you have gone and opened a can of worms. We all know ballistic tips don't kill elk, they blow up on the hide. I know, I have killed a dozen or so with ballistic tips, but don't tell anyone. ;D
Jon, sectional density is a stupid number to base anything off of. You can have a long bullet with great sectional density, but it blows apart on impact. Yup, good thing it had good sectional density.
The reason your heavy partitions don't kill so well, is because they don't disrupt tissue like the lighter bullets. ie; they don't expand well due to low velocity. They simply plow through. But, I am sure in all your infinite experience, you know this ;o) Flinch
Good post Finch. I personally have no time for SD in any bullet evaluation. Anyone who thinks a 275gn Speer .338 bullet will out penetrate a 150gn .308 TSX has a lot to learn, and if I am wrong, it will only be a couple of bits of the Speer that limp along that far, not the entire bullet.
John
