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    Thermal clip ons

    Sent a PM. Handheld/clip-on is hard to beat for a general use thermal. If you're nearby (or want to take a drive) you can come check ours out.
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    Questions about the irrelevance of energy (ft-lbs)

    You continue to move the goalposts; it was penetration, then energy, now it's mass. No one is denying mass exists, or that it plays into the equation for KE. It is functionally worthless though to describe what a bullet does once it hits an animal. At this point I think you're trolling given...
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    Questions about the irrelevance of energy (ft-lbs)

    Without mass there is no bullet. The bullets below have exactly the same mass. One will have 326 ft lbs of energy at the muzzle, the other has that energy at over 2500 yards. Knowing they both have the same mass and same energy, can we expect the same performance? The answer is no. Each bullet...
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    Wolves in the Gila

    Yeah, they will kill them/breed them. I'll ask our DWM or one of the game damage specialists next time I see them if there is a plan, wouldn't be shocked if there wasn't yet. Spent 3 hrs with them Saturday, wish I had asked for that update then.
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    Wolves in the Gila

    On this map, you can see the northern and southern reintroduction areas circled. You can also see a dashed b&w line representing the continental divide, a red line running E/W south of the WY border, a red line running N/S easy of the UT border, and a multi-segmented red line going parallel to...
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    Questions about the irrelevance of energy (ft-lbs)

    Just bringing the conversation back around to 'energy is needed for penetration through shoulders/angled shots", which you brought up earlier. Also, there is a 71 fps impact velocity difference, less than the SD of some boxes of ammo. We aren't talking 1800 fps vs 2800 fps, we are talking 2647...
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    Questions about the irrelevance of energy (ft-lbs)

    Better penetration, especially through a barrier like plywood (shoulder) with a max cavity that is deeper into the block and a cavity that extends further into the block. All with less "energy".
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    Questions about the irrelevance of energy (ft-lbs)

    The 6mm is objectively the best performing round in that testing across the listed metrics. The 168 gr ELDM at that velocity doesn't have the penetration for that hard quartering away shot on an elk.
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    Questions about the irrelevance of energy (ft-lbs)

    How does KE play into the gel results below, especially through barriers like heavy clothing or plywood? Also how do you calculate the terminal results on an animal using KE between a 168 gr AMAX and a 168 gr BTHP?
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    .223, 6mm, and 6.5 failures on big game

    Again, from Charles Ruth, who authored the study and presented on it: It doesn't seem you actually want to have a conversation around that study, you want to cherry pick things to support your position rather than taking the study as a whole and learning what the overall takeaways were. Good...
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    .223, 6mm, and 6.5 failures on big game

    https://www.dnr.sc.gov/wildlife/deer/articlegad.html That damn SC DNR, being biased. Quotes are taken from the above link. Charles Ruth did the study (and wrote the above quotes as well), and presented on it at the 22nd Annual Southeast Deer Study Group. Highlighted text in red may be relevant...
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    .223, 6mm, and 6.5 failures on big game

    That study is from 1999. I would say that there have been improvements in bullet design in the intervening 25 years. I did pull the quotes below from the study.
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    Questions about the irrelevance of energy (ft-lbs)

    Describe the KE in the pictures below, and how that number (regardless of other variable like bullet type) will impact the outcome. Bonus points if you can deduct caliber without going to look for the source. For reference again, that last picture is the famous quartering away shot on an elk...
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    Thank you Form I’m now a mk12 believer

    Mk12 mod 0 gen II naked (no scope/suppressor/magazine) with a SOPMOD stock is ~8.4 lbs.
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    Smaller Calibers-Where/Why To Draw The Line?

    In the testing below from Hornady's Law Enforcement Ammo Test & Application, the 6mm 106 gr TAP (functionally an ELDM) is 1,2,1,2,2 in each category minus final expanded diameter (4th). The 168 gr ELDM is 4,1,3,2,1, and first in final expanded diameter. You can hit the links below and find .223...
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