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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack Shootza 50" data-source="post: 3896886" data-attributes="member: 49036"><p>I've noticed in recent times that more and more bullet manufactures are stating a minimum impact velocity for expansion, especially the solid copper/bronze/brass bullets, I've used match bullets for varmint hunting and as long as I can get a hit at the minimum velocity that generates the minimum energy for big game (1000 fp for deer) and (1500 fp for elk & black bear) and these bullets will open up I figure they would open up even wider on larger animals. I never have hunted big game with match bullets but with the prices and spotty availablilty of things these days, I keep this in mind. Another thing that has stuck with me since I read about it when I was a kid, William "Karamoja" Bell, one of the greatest elephant hunters of all time, quite often used the 7mm Mouser with military FMJ bullets to slay hundreds of elephants, he would run alongside of them and shoot them in the head and usually drop them with one shot thru the brain, but he was in excellent shape and a deadly accurate marksman, this brings us back to the old wise saying about bullet placement, accuracy first, bullet type 2nd but the bullet needs to be strong enough to penetrate to the vitals, them two things will get the job done.</p></blockquote><p></p>