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Hey Guys,
Here's a picture that my apprentice took, of a pig he stuck a few months back. Under the skin on the back leg of the pig was a cluster of steel shot. Most had stopped before hitting the muscle. All had healed over and the pig was fine until he dispatched it.
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cheers LR
Reason to carry a few rounds of 00 Buck or a slug?
Really a slug for a pig, but I doubt slug that would agree with the modified choke most of us use for ducks.
Shows how ineffective steel shot is, and looking at how concentrated that shot is it must have been bloody close!
I've had the same thing on geese. That may be more the brand of ammo I was using over it being steel thoughQuote:
Originally Posted by Spudattack
That is pretty small shot that some wanker fired at a pigs ass. Any hunter with brains should no that wouldn't kill it.
Yet again another reason we should have a "Fuck me Dead" smiley in the lineup.
30 Cal in a Billy's knee!
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Really don't think it would matter what shot size it was shot in a ham with:rolleyes:
My old man went threw a 22mag phase on a wee private block... kept telling him to take a real rifle ie his 223 or 30-06.
Anyway one evening he emptied the mag at the head and neck of a decent boar and it got away.
over a year later gets a big old boar with a real rifle and when skinning it out noticed lumps around its head and neck, thinking maybe some lurgy he skinned it out instead of just cutting it off for the wheelie bin and low and behold found 3 of 5 flattened 22mag projectiles, one dead center in the forehead flattened on the scull.
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I've shot pigs with a .22lr
I reckon shit just happens. I've shot goats with #3 shot while duck shooting also had a sub sonic .22lr stuck in the skin on a rabbits head. Had a .270 also fail me (surprise surprise :P ) 15m the bullet was stuck in the skin like the photo above.
Which is why we should use an appropriate caliber and PROJECTILE for the game we hunt.
I have shot deer pigs goats with subsonic 22, doesn't make it good or right, have also had 308 completely fail to penetrate the vitals on shoulder shot not once but 3 times on the same animal.
Bad projectile choice.
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First pig I ever killed on my loansome was with bird shot, bastard chased my at the time foxie out of the scrub when i was shooting rabbits. But yea wasnt steel shot although that cluster of bb's looks like it was bloody close
Was that shot at 2000 metres?Quote:
Originally Posted by kokako
Who would know, It had been in there for a long time!Quote:
Originally Posted by Rushy
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Originally Posted by kokako
Must be a 30-30 :D seriously tho how do you think it got there? At any reasonable range it would have broken the joint and passed on,perhaps had already passed threw an animal before lodging in that ones knee?
I don't think it would have been there that long, body will push out foren matter. I have personal experience with this.
Was it mushroomed? and if not is it a FMJ?
It was mushroomed and it would not pull out. We had to cut it out. The knee was in fine working order with no swelling or infection.
Not FMJ. 7.62 x 39?
I do believe it was shot at extreme long range and just ran out of energy.
Would probably not have expanded at velocity low enough to not damage the bone? my pick is passed threw another animal in a mob and lodged in its knee already expanded.Quote:
Originally Posted by kokako
Just a guess tho.
Seen a big boar laugh off a 30-30 at 10 paces , shot in the shield . Just about run my mate down , funny as who said White men can't jump!
300 wsm's make a good bush gun! No deer has got up from a 220gr RN going 2,630fps yet. This would go back to what VC said about the right projectile choice.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mauser308
Though the one I mentioned about the .270 at 15m was with factory winchester super x ammo.
I'm still sticking by "shit happens"
cant stand wankers that dont use the right cal on animals.....i would find it hard to sleep at night if i knew there was something slowly dieing or just finding life shit in general because of my fuckup of not shooting to kill
Dealt to the scrawniest fallow ive ever seen recently in the kaimais.
Had a shotgun pellets lodged in its jaw,jawbone was broken, was blind in one eye and a few other pellets all over its head.
poor bastard of an animal...hell of a way to slowly die.
Still,at least the bastard aimed at its head, shooting something in the ass is never gonna kill it.More of a 'piss off' short to me
