How to Pick Rifle Ammo

You choose a rifle based on what kind of hunting you are going to do and what game you plan on hunting. Learn more about how to choose a rifle.
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What with all the wonderful, virtually infallible, big-game bullets that are available even to the funky, the feeble, and the futile, the argument still persists about whether a slug should stay in the critter or exit. The “stay in” crowd argues that bullets that do not go through and through transfer all their energy to the unfortunate beast and drop it quickly, while bullets that go whistling out the far side spend all their foot-pounds in the open air where it does no good. I can’t follow the “transfer of energy” argument. I’ve seen big, tough animals—900-pound elk, 1,400-pound eland-- drop dead in their tracks from one hit with an “inadequate” caliber that had enough muzzle energy for a well-fed whitetail and no more, and I’ve seen smaller animals run like hell after being walloped with something serious like a .338 or a .375 H&H.
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Selecting the right deer bullets can be the difference between bagging a trophy, or going home hungry.