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Just the soft tissue on game animals like Elk, Mule Deer, and even large White Tail - has caused countless high powered rifle bullets to come apart on impact.
The 7 Mil Mag even got a reputation as a "wounder" when it first hit the market because hunters would score a good shot on game - and the animal would run away - never to be seen again. Lightly constructed bullets can and do come apart on impact in the craziest of circumstances. I've seen White Tail deer take both 150 and 180 grain .30-06 bullets at 100-150 yards and watched them jump and run like they had seen a ghost - then drop dead 100 yards away without an exit wound. I've had arrows go straight through and lodge an inch dep in a tree 75 yards away - with the animal laying down for a dirt nap less than 40 yards away.
In other cases - there are medium sized game animals that have dropped in their tracks like the "live switch" was flipped off - and they were hit with nothing more impressive that a 243 at well beyond 200 yards.
What happened to Charlie Kirk wasn't magic - or prophetic - or miraculous. It just happened.
An old sporterized military surplus rifle and what may or may not be a round from a questionable lot number of ammunition was used by an average shooter to take a very "makeable" shot from a very "makeable shot distance" and from the very disturbing video footage - the poor man was all but dead before he hit the ground.
Things happen.
...just my two cents based on my own meandering observations
The 7 Mil Mag even got a reputation as a "wounder" when it first hit the market because hunters would score a good shot on game - and the animal would run away - never to be seen again. Lightly constructed bullets can and do come apart on impact in the craziest of circumstances. I've seen White Tail deer take both 150 and 180 grain .30-06 bullets at 100-150 yards and watched them jump and run like they had seen a ghost - then drop dead 100 yards away without an exit wound. I've had arrows go straight through and lodge an inch dep in a tree 75 yards away - with the animal laying down for a dirt nap less than 40 yards away.
In other cases - there are medium sized game animals that have dropped in their tracks like the "live switch" was flipped off - and they were hit with nothing more impressive that a 243 at well beyond 200 yards.
What happened to Charlie Kirk wasn't magic - or prophetic - or miraculous. It just happened.
An old sporterized military surplus rifle and what may or may not be a round from a questionable lot number of ammunition was used by an average shooter to take a very "makeable" shot from a very "makeable shot distance" and from the very disturbing video footage - the poor man was all but dead before he hit the ground.
Things happen.
...just my two cents based on my own meandering observations
