I agree with you GWB, but in my experience the bloodshot meat is usually not in the area's where the best meat is. I care very little if the ribcage meat and maybe part of one front shoulder (some of the toughest and tendon filled meat on the whole animal, IME) are bloodshot. I will give that up in trade for the 'hit by a bolt of lightning' type kills and great blood trails. I have seen damage like that from a pipsqueak round like my old 6/284, and with a good, solidly constructed Barnes X bullet, no less.
With my 257WBY on deer, if the range is under about 400 yards I get the same kinds of effects you show in your photos, and that is one of the reasons that I have so enjoyed that cartridge.
Your photos and other like it prove the point that velocity can and most often does create what I prefer to call a Hydraulic Overload in blood vessels etc. far from the path of the bullet. As for me, I LIKE that!
Last edited by safariman; 01/01/14.
