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Old 08-15-2005, 06:05 PM
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I'm tempted to say that one can run 100 red lights without a problem, but on the 101st...

The problem is that in writing that, it might sound as if I were being sarcastic. I'm not.

But what I mean is that it's very difficult to read anything into such small sample numbers. One hunter may have superb luck with ten or twenty of even 50 animals, but the next hunter might wound and lose the first animal he hits with a given bullet.

One hears of Nosler Partition or Ballistic Tips that "failed" for example. Does that mean that the bullet designers are all stupid and we should should match bullets at deer instead of hunting bullets? Nope.

It means that one or two bullets (of EACH KIND) performed in a way not expected. I choose to believe the folks who design and test their bullets as thoroughly as they know how. If they tell me not to use target bullets on game, then I won't. I won't recommend otherwise, either.
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