Hunting Bullet Metrics

Apply Terminal Performance Truth


 

 

Table 1: Selected Mann Data1 Summary

Hunting Bullet Metrics Wound Cavity Creation Article

 

 

Impact Velocity (fps)

Expansion Ratio

Total Wound Cavity Volume (cc)

Penetration (inches)

Retained Weight (%)

 

 

 

 

 

1811

1.40

10

22+

100

2102

1.67

35

18.0

99

2498

2.25

62

12.6

99

2740

2.27

100

13.0

98

2830

2.23

120

13.5

96

3066

2.15

145

14.2

91

3190

2.12

180

15.3

90

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Table 1 Notes

1 = Rifle Bullets for the Hunter, a Definitive Study , 2006, first addition, Ballistic

Technology, Princeton, West Virginia, pp 54-55.