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#10MinuteTalk - Brush Busting Cartridges - Fact or Fiction

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🗓️ 30 June 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Quick-handling repeating guns firing big, heavy, slow-moving (comparatively) bullets have garnered a reputation for being “Brush Busters” for as long as we can remember. But why? Do the bullets these cartridges fire really bust through brush accurately, delivering their heavy payload on target no matter what lay before them. Are bucks in heavy cover with a screen of brush covering their vitals truly unsafe from these magic bullets? Is this concept fact or fiction? Should we do some experimenting ourselves? Let us know in the comments!

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0:00.0

What's up everybody? We have 10 minutes here with esteemed colleague Ryan Mukenhearn and we're going to talk about the idea and concept of and probably get into some specific examples of brush busting cartridges. This was a term that was relatively new to me. I don't know, maybe it's not new to you though, but it's the idea of feeling the blank, Ryan.

0:24.4

Large caliber, lower velocity, pushing through the brambles.

0:30.5

Right.

0:31.0

Get to the critter on the other side.

0:32.6

It's hard for me to even say.

0:34.3

Round-nosed.

0:35.3

Typically.

0:36.3

Yeah.

0:37.3

And how, what kind of areas are people finding themselves in this kind of a situation?

0:41.8

Is it generally probably the dense foliage

0:45.0

regions? I we do we just go straight into fact or fiction I think was

0:50.2

point. No I want to address Jim's question because it's a good question. I was

0:54.4

introduced to the term brushbuster by either my father or his hunting partner

0:59.7

Joe at a younger age in a deer camp. They were talking about the merits of a particular cartridge, which I don't recall.

1:05.4

It's the first thing I've ever heard you not recall.

1:08.0

Because I did, I was not enamored by the idea after they had explained it.

1:13.0

Very, I mean, point blank, they said it's,

1:16.0

oh, that's a brushbuster cartridge.

1:17.8

You shoot through the trees and you hit your critter.

1:20.6

And like I was fresh off a hunter safety safety so I'm like a 12 year old.

1:24.0

Is this some sort of test?

1:26.0

And I'm remembering like what happens at Deer Camp stays at Deer Camp.

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