Originally Posted by Old_Crab
Here's a great brain teaser for you all when you look at terminal ballistics on three very fine bullet choices for big game... which would you pick after reading the ballistics?

bullet 1: 168 grain TTSX
mv: 2800fps; 500 yards energy: 1343ft/pds at 1898fps with sd of .253

bullet 2: 180 grain Nosler partition spitzer
mv: 2730fps; 500 yards energy: 1345ft/pds at 1834fps with sd of .271

bullet 3: 200 grain Nosler partition semi-spitzer
mv: 2625fps; 500 yards energy: 1380ft/pds at 1763fps with sd of .301

hmmmm.......

All good bullets, but the sectional densities are all growing with the additional bullet weight, and they all carry considerable energy to a 500 yard target.

So, if you could work up a "good load" (reasonable accuracy) with the three bullets above, which one do you think is really going to do more damage, generally, looking at the fps/energy/sd differences on the three???

How's this for a good brain teaser?
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Whichever shot the best in your rifle.
200gn Semi Spitzer Partions are obsolete but the extant spitzer is never a bad selection.

The fact is you would have to kill an aweful lot of animals to find any difference in the averaged results, my guess would be no difference on game for similar placement and game awareness.

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