Originally Posted by prm
And the charts show that the same bullet penetrates roughly equal to or MORE as it slows down. Exactly opposite what your quote implied.


There are too many variables to draw that conclusion for all bullets and all velocities.

I shot both .308 Win and .300 Win Mag this season, both with Barnes TTSX, 130 and 165 respectively, bullets launched at about 3100 fps. Both exited, everything fell down dead. I shot a deer at about five feet with a .45 ACP 230 grain at 900 fps and the bullet did not exit - deer was very dead too. So, the slower and heavier bullet did not penetrate as much as the faster and lighter bullets. Theory disproven?