I'm under the impression that the front end of a partition is supposed to exspand violently and will or won't seperatefrom the core. The front end violence is ideal for tissue damage causing excelent blood loss while the partion and it's core maintain it's path of massive penetration...
Really it's a perfect desighn. And IMO leads to faster kills and eaisier tracking than a TSX..
I live on the wetside of washington. Sideways rain is how we spend alot of our seasons.. I'll take a bullet that leaves a better blood trail anyday. I'm not into losing an animal.
We also only get one deer per year. I don't tent to blow [bleep] through the shoulders as I like the meat. Now if I live somewhere I could shoot 5 deer a year I wouldn't be as concerned with that.
My favorite quote ever is from an Alaskan ass kisser that was desperate to fit in so he started running the TSX...
After several seasons he was quoted as saying that he did like the TSX but didn't like it's performance on lung shots. He said he felt like he could shot a field mouse in the lungs and it would run for 300yds and not leave a blood trail..
Nice to beable to choose. Isn't it.
Obviously you have not cut meat from TSX/X kills... The phrase "Eat right up to the hole" was coined for them. They "cut" much more than other bullets and do not run the tremendous bruising one gets fron C&C bullets.
Meat loss with a TSX through the shoulders is far less than with Partitions. There is simply no comparison on that one.
I hunt Kodiak a lot... do you really want to compare weather? Seattle gets slightly less than half the rain of Kodiak... I have seen the differences in blood trails many times, first hand.
I grew up shooting behind the shoulders because I was told it was the right thing to do. And with C&C bullets it is probably correct, but give me the X through the shoulders for tracking ease... I mean, how hard can it be to track a critter from standing to prone in the same set of tracks?
And the benefit of less meat ruined is obvious...
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