Thread: Calibre / Velocity / Projectile vs Meat Wastage

Originally Posted by MrMatu

Obviously an animal crawling away to die slowly is an animal lost and totally wasted.
But referring to the question at hand -if all other things are equal, and one option preserves more meat than the others - why wouldn't you want to use that option? Otherwise you might as well use a 338 on rabbits...

Basically - I have no issue with killing animals for meat/ and or pest control. But I feel it is more respectful to the animal/life to use as much as possible. That's just my ethics though. Other may feel differently and thats totally fine.

have you ever done the maths on rabbit with .22lr
projectile weighs ABOUT 5grams...rabbit weighs 500-1000grms so projectile is 0.5-1% of animals weight... big red deer might go 200lb so to be doing same you need projectile 1-2lb even if you use 100lb for deer its still a HUGE hunk of lead.....
I dont believe you need to use AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE....but should always use enough to ensure a clean kill.....and putting projectile in correct place is big part of that....