Originally Posted by Mule Deer


My hunting notes have quantified a difference in how far lung-shot animals travel after being shot with "petal" type bullets, whether TSX's, E-Tips or the old Fail Safe, but it averages out a little over 50 yards, compared to 18 yards for the fastest-killing bullet I've seen take a considerable number of animals, the Berger Hunting VLD. Other expanding bullets are somewhere in between those, with lung-shot animals traveling 30-40 yards after the shot.


That is very interesting data. So, even comparing a standard CnC type bullet to a mono, you're only looking at a difference of about 15 yards longer trail on average. I would have expected more.

Out of curiosity, do you have any data for ELD-M / AMAX bullets compared to Bergers?