Hunting & Fishing Taylor Knockout Factor
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This tard making the video isn’t the discussion. John Taylor certainly knows a thing or two about terminal ballistics. Anyway, just curious of other’s thoughts on TKF
I mean I've read the idea behind the TK factor. I think that perhaps in the days that he was doing his best to kill as many African big game animals as possible - it had some merit.
There's been a pretty decent amount of bullet (specifically hunting) technology since he published his formula. I think that it closes the gaps pretty considerably. That being said; I'm personally not the one who is always trying to push the limit of what a cartridge can kill, and that's simply because I like a little wiggle room if I make an error.
Que the arguments between guys who claim to hunt elk with a .223, and those who have to have a magnum for anything larger than a Pronghorn in 3...2...1...
There's been a pretty decent amount of bullet (specifically hunting) technology since he published his formula. I think that it closes the gaps pretty considerably. That being said; I'm personally not the one who is always trying to push the limit of what a cartridge can kill, and that's simply because I like a little wiggle room if I make an error.
Que the arguments between guys who claim to hunt elk with a .223, and those who have to have a magnum for anything larger than a Pronghorn in 3...2...1...
I agree that modern designed bullets are infinitely more capable of doing what they are designed for than just the lead and jacketed bullets of back in the day. Esp copper bullets . And heavy for caliber bullets being more important than caliber
Well I do t know much about TKF but I did some years ago get tired of woodchucks hit with a .22lr get back into their hole so I moved to .22 mag then .17 hmr then .233 and then 22-250 and then .243 and a brief time used a .338 federal, then a 308 with 110 grain pills and now of course I use a 12 gauge with copper solid slugs .
Well, while not that severe, I can attest that after shooting ~500 pigs - that a .308 has a significantly better chance of allowing you to recover a hog from an imperfect hit than a .223 does.
This is true. I am not up to 500, but do have a pretty good sample size. What is weird about bullets and bullet performance is that just when you think you are developing a baseline you get an outlier or two that totally messes with your mind. Which of course leads you to trying new stuff, which probably isn't a bad thing. Having read thousands of words worth of bullet performance theory, I still feel comfortable with the theory that bullets will do some weird shit from time to time. Just like arrows, or probably any other projectile. I have learned to embrace the "what just happened" moments as part of the game.
Which is why I don't feel confident in a bullet until I've killed at least a dozen of something with it.
