Sun Aug 13, 2023 10:54 am
even then I'm not sold. If you have 2 of the same animal, identical in every way and you send one mono through both lungs and one rapidly expanding, fragmenting bullet which one will expire faster. The answer will always be the one with the bigger hole which mono's do a very poor job at creating.
Mono's do one thing exceptionally well, the one thing they were originally designed for which is deep penetration. The trade off is a very narrow channel which for me about 1/2 the time has been about the diameter of an old XX75 aluminum arrow regardless of caliber. The very best case scenario w/ full upset has had the frontal diameter of a nickel (30 cal). Even on bullets I retrieved I had a lot of variability in how much upset there was.
I don't want to derail any further but google dr. martin fackler and dr. gary roberts. Both were/are regarded as top ballisticians and have written a ton on how projectiles kill which virtually goes against everything a mono does. I'll still shoot monos if penetration is a serious concern but don't believe them to have some magic potion that some will lead you to believe they have. I certainly dont see the point for deer size game and theres a serious following of people shooting moose and elk w/ 5.56's now in states w/out caliber restrictions so it begs the question if a 556 can get to the vitals of NA's biggest ungulates is penetration really a problem?
It's nice to have choices and don't blame kwack for using them on moose. however core lokts have been laying things down for a long time and will likely continue for decades to come now that federal is in charge.