Hello David,
On 30 Jul. 96  11:39 David R. Norton wrote to John Perz...
 DN> In hunting, the .357 exits the body and makes a large exit hole,
 DN> the .44 makes a larger exit hole and removes more body parts
 DN> doing so. It's probably overkill, game hit with either gun seems
 DN> to be equally
 dead...... 
I can echo your experience, exactly.  In years of hunting with
a group (12) of handgun hunters in the whitetail season in
Wisconsin, our experiments show that on fragile game like
whitetail deer, that shot placement remains the primary
component of clean, humane kills.  The talk of energy dump
seems all wrong to me in this case.  The energy is less than
the push on the hand as the bullet exits the handgun.  The
real issue in comparison of caliber/bullet/loads is whether or
not there is consistent tissue damage with that combination.
A bullet that consistently exits with a wide wound channel
leads to the most consistent one shot stops.  Hydrostatic
shock only seems consistently effective in the over-bore or
Weatherby class of cartridges.
I'm the first to admit that even our 200+ deer kills are
anecdotal evidence, but one does tend to believe what he sees
consistently.  We need to also remember that there is hardly
anything as truly unpredictable as bullet behavior as we all
have had hard to explain events occur that seem to defy all
logic in shooting.
Regards,
-=Craig=-
craigclu@win.bright.net    1:2245/201
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