Finally caught up on this monster thread, every post from start to now. Damned if this bullet isn't a cool little thing. I quoted Matt because I'm appreciative of the close-ups of the cleaned bullet fragments. Those are gnarly and given the speeds they're moving through the animal at, it makes the larger wound tracts make a lot more sense. Good stretch from the temp cavity, tissue torn by those big jagged pieces and prevented from returning. I had it in my head that a lot more of the bullet was fragmented and a lot of the previous bullet remnant pictures weren't clear on how big or how much of the bullet remained.
So it looks like the gameplan for me has definitively changed. I've got a pretty good scope on the way, already have a base for it, have one and a half AR's (soon two) to slap it on, and see who shoots these fancy 77grainers better and that'll be papa's first hunting rifle. At that point I'll be confident that the hardware is fine and it's just the software that'll need learning.
Thank folks, this topic has been a trip but an educational one for sure.
. Hopefully get to try out the TMK soon.
