Thread: 22 magnum on reds

Originally Posted by lloydcj

Just to bring a variation to the forum, has anyone shot and killed deer with buckshot, I fired 4 shots with a 12 gauge pump with 3 inch buckshot, at 3 hinds close together from 70 meters and got nothing, is this the norm?

#6 is good, but only on headshots and only if you don't want the head

Maybe Carlsen would like to inform this guy about how in accurate bows are for hunting
The dove bow hunter. - YouTube

That's impressive.

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Target shot at 60m.
After fitting the drop away rest to my compound bow, this wasn't an uncommon grouping for me at this sort of range.
I was practicing probably 3 evenings a week at the time and shooting the club competitions regularly.
I stopped shooting at the same target dot at 20m because this got expensive!

Modern compound bows are incredibly accurate!
It is still down to the person behind the weapon to know their own personal limits though.

A deers head is the most animated part of its body, it is the target with the smallest margin for error. Even with a large centrefire, it's the target I least like to shoot at.
Between the shooter making the decision to fire, and the bullet striking the target, the deers head can be a couple of inches away from where it was when the bullet was sent down range.
If a soft lead .22lr or .22 magnum round connects at anything less than an almost ideal angle with anything, it will ricochet and in my early days of trying to head shoot foxes with the above rounds, I heard the bullet do this on quite a few occasions, thus being the reason I started chest shooting them with the .22 instead.
As I have gained more experience, both my shot selection and ethics have changed. Their are occasions when I still take head shots on deer, but for me the .22 has way too small a margin of error.
To each, their own!

looks like ya missed a few with all those holes