Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles Fast twist = faster death?

It isn't that dumb of a question when you consider all the guys that believe fast twist kills faster...

Wait a minute..I just heard something zing by my head...

Ingwe, thanks for appreciating my attempt at humor. That is priceless! Gonna have to remember that. Too funny

If one was to use enough speed and twist to generate ubermega-rpm's, could a mono-metal projectile of pin-grabber design grip an animal's hide upon impact, prior to expansion, and effectively turn said critter inside out as it passed through the animal? Think of the time saved from field dressing....

I'd pay good money for a bullet that would stop at skinning a deer.

I agree.......lotsa guessing.

Of course the bullet continues to spin after it contacts stuff.

Geeeezzz....

I'd love to see a video comparing a couple blocks of gelatin. One shot with an 8" twist 223 and the other with a 12".....bullets being shot from the same box of ammo.....

I wonder what effect rifle torque has on ability of the general shooting population to hit well? (Faster twist means more torque.)

(That is the reason all those ghetto guys are seen with the guns held sideways- that's simply the left hand torque of guns which have right hand twist that causes that. )

You've almost got me convinced. I too would like to see that comparison.

True story. A guy in the shop today was buying two Glock 19's. He was holding one in each hand -- sideways. Looked him straight in the eye and told him if I saw him doing that again I wouldn't let anybody punch his paperwork in the system.

He chuckled and put them both back on the counter...

Nothin

Sh1t, I'd never believed it if I hadnt seen this.

its got me thinkin'

280 grain 7mm........4" twist ?

the Texas heart shot might work out well

it'll twist the guts up in a knot and you reach in with a pair of long nose pliers, grab the bullet and yank it all out with a quick left hand twist,assuming a rh twist rifle fired the bullet....:-)

I gotta agree with this. I've shot prairie dogs with .223s, using the same ammo out of both 9twist and 12 twist barrels, and it seemed that the 9 twisted guns splatted the rats more, and there was more rotation in the parts d:^). The old Savages spun the rats more than the Howa did. Of course, the rats died regardless of the twist rate or cartridge, they just died harder with the faster rated pipes. All in good fun, of course.

Exactly....it helps expand the bullet.Expanding bullets cause trauma. Trauma is what kills. Nothing mysterious.

"Should I do the ghetto lean?


And maybe a crotch grab?"



TFF!




Of course, whenever possible, I also prefer to shoot "urbanite" style and hold the rifle sideways....

Until someone shoots a live deer standing in an MRI Scanner(if they can scan that fast), all we can do is basically guess - or look at very limited data.

After a bullet's expanded, it would seem logical that the petals work like cutting edges, spinning like a saw blade. Assuming again the bullet goes more or less straight through the animal, more revolutions = a greater length of cut inside the animal. The more big blood vessels that are cut by the bullet's passing, the quicker it dies.

As far as launching a varmint, I shot a cottontail once with a .25-06 (before I realized they were good to eat ). It was a 120gr factory load, out of a 1 in 10" barrel. I recover from the recoil, look up, and see a patch of fur reaching the apex of its flight, about 15 or 20 feet in the air. My buddy said, Gawd dayummmm We walked up and about half the bunny had simply vanished.

'sploding critters are highly non-linear

Only 'cause you mist.