Thread: nearly 300 sheep shot in north otago.

Weird alright!! Been thinking about this a wee bit - if someone was shooting these with a reasonable brand of off the shelf, high caliber hunting cartridge, that's about $500 worth of ammo and that's not allowing for the odd miss.
If they were shot, I'm picking it would have been someone with a .17 HMR or similar, 5 or so packets of ammo would fill his pockets, projectiles fragmenting leaving few "bullet heads" behind and a high wound rate.
I've watched heaps of CSI lately, so I've profiled this character as being, quite young, fucking stupid, has access to a farmers gun (tut tut), played heaps of shooting video games and doesn't give a fuck about people or animals. I reckon they want to look close at hand, maybe a mate of a farmers son, a local farm hand, a townie kid on holiday at the Uncles farm etc.
That is, if they have actually been shot - I know first hand how reporters twist the truth to juice up a story.
I am merely speculating of course, and I know I probably shouldn't, but this is way out there - to hard not to have an opinion

Originally Posted by Herne

Weird alright!! Been thinking about this a wee bit - if someone was shooting these with a reasonable brand of off the shelf, high caliber hunting cartridge, that's about $500 worth of ammo and that's not allowing for the odd miss.
If they were shot, I'm picking it would have been someone with a .17 HMR or similar, 5 or so packets of ammo would fill his pockets, projectiles fragmenting leaving few "bullet heads" behind and a high wound rate.
I've watched heaps of CSI lately, so I've profiled this character as being, quite young, fucking stupid, has access to a farmers gun (tut tut), played heaps of shooting video games and doesn't give a fuck about people or animals. I reckon they want to look close at hand, maybe a mate of a farmers son, a local farm hand, a townie kid on holiday at the Uncles farm etc.
That is, if they have actually been shot - I know first hand how reporters twist the truth to juice up a story.
I am merely speculating of course, and I know I probably shouldn't, but this is way out there - to hard not to have an opinion

That's why I mentioned FMJ 223 ammo