Bullet weight?

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Cody M

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My question is, i hear people talking about certain bullets being too light that they cause splash. my question is, does it really matter what the bullet weight is in say a 204 if the coyote or other critter is shot in the head???

Thanks
Cody
 
Not true.
Only brain shots matter. That is a much smaller target than the head. The brain is about the size of a medium egg. Any head shot that does not hit the brain is bad news.

Jack
 
+1 for Jack's comments.

A slightly misplaced head shot can leave a horribly wounded animal to die a slow lingering death. It's too easy to shoot away a jaw or snout, or blind the animal, leaving him completely mobile but unable to eat and in maddening pain.
 
Hunter ethics choose a bullet to dispath your target in a humane manner if you find one that does a good job on the pelt great /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif
 
ok thanks, so a bullet with more weight will have more energy...and a better chance of taking out the nervous system.

right?
 
Cody, you also want to select a bullet design that will hold up to punching through bone. My honeymoon with the varmint class bullets has pretty much ended. While the bullets I have been using, the 55 grain Sierra BlitzKings, offer wonderful performance on jackrabbits and facing coyotes, they don't do well with bone. I'm in the process of switching to the 55 grain Sierra GameKing HPBT that is of a stronger design and according to Sierra is able to handle the shoulder of a coyote and offer deeper penetration to reach vitals when facing the southern end of a north facing coyote.

While the varmint bullets have put a good number of coyotes into the dirt, they tend to not exit, which is both good and bad. On the plus side it creates minimal pelt damage. Typically a caliber sized hole going in and no exit. The downside is that they don't exit. Without an exit wound it is difficult to track a coyote that you know you got a solid hit on but it was still able to run and pile up outside of view.
 
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