Thread: Shooting through stuff.

yip my track record through tussock is terrible unless up close and using shotgun LOL.
basically from all Ive read and seen over the years,its got to be a light screen of vegetation,twigs n leaves and animal needs to be CLOSE to it,the further from animal to twig etc the worse the result will be...and the mighty .243 USED to be sworn at if twig was struck on way to animal... doesnt take much to really upset a fragile pill going fast. a heavy slug going slower is slightly less likely to misbehave as its bigger/heavier and has more of it to arrive and more mass to move off intended path .
the only time Ive nearly been injured from firearm other than 177 air rifle pellet coming back and hitting me,was a .12ga solid of all things that went through a rams head then bounced around walls of woolshed before stopping balanced on grating by my foot!!!! went back to emery spanner to "quiet them down' before slitting throat after that......back in days before rules had changed..a big dogtucker ram was hard work for a teenager to handle.