"Bullfrog"
"oldspook"
"Bullfrog"How do you know you didn't get a pass thru on the deer you lost?
I'm convinced the deadliest airgun lung kills are the ones with double lung penetration but no pass thru.
Don't want to hijack the thread but why would no pass through be "more deadly" than a pass through. Suppose both bullets traveled the same path and one stopped just under the skin on the off side, why would it be more deadly? I don't think it would be more deadly. Which is more deadly one sucking chest wound or
two sucking chest wounds? With the pass through you get two sucking chest wounds. Anyway that's likely off topic and I probably should have left it alone.
A pellet or bullet that gets caught in the animal deposits all of its energy into the animal. The bullet that passes thru deposits very little energy unless there is expansion of the round as it passes thru.
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Specifically as it relates to airguns, I bought a .357 Evanix a while ago that turned out to be too much gun for coons. It would consistently shoot thru them, causing them to run off and dying where I often couldn't find them. The only rounds I had access to that it would shoot consistently were non-expanding JSBs so that's what I hunted with. The .357 performed exactly the same on coons in terms of killing power as my .270 deer rifle. My .25 Marauder kills coons cleaner behind the shoulder than either my .357 Evanix or my .270 firearm. Yet I could shoot the same JSB into a larger animal (100lb+) that it wouldn't pass thru and it would the animal clean, even though the pellet didn't expand. It seems like airguns follow the same patterns as firearms in spite of the significantly lower energies air guns generate. Deposit the energy, kill the animal closer to where you shot it. Punch thru the animal and fail to deposit the energy, expect the animal to die further away.