Brittany boy
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What you think then
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Bo Diddley
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Poorly executed headshot. $hite happens sometimes... not many own up to it though.
Brittany boy
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This farmer doesn’t allow the deer to be shot and no one else meant to be on the ground, I do the foxes for the surrounding farms. Why not a rimfire? Just curious , no one actually saw what caused the injury, another stalker suggested struck by a car but farmer thought shot with RF.
but rf, nup
No it doesn’t.22 is hugely effective with subs. SuperSonics have found just inaccurate, at best.
Shot many a fox with them in the past, but never deer/large deer obviously !
I’ve shot a couple roe from a plantation that had a poaching issue, and a couple had 22lr subs lodged into the back of their skulls - never penetrated the back bone structure of the skull.
For the 22lr it’s all about distance to target as to how effective it is, and at 30-40yds it’s very effective, at 120, it is starting to fall asleep
That’s why the boxes say lethal to 1.5km or a mile.
Check if you don’t believe me.
I was told about the incident at Paderborn where soldiers were on the range with .22 trainers.
Sadly one was let off pointing above the backstop.
Think it was a horse rider who was killed at about a mile.
They lose their accuracy (although people are staring to shoot them out to 200-300yds) but not their lethality.
I’ve taken a fox at about 165yds.
It ran about 15yrs and keeled over.
HonestJohn
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Bo Diddley
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Oldest fox in the country as well, named in the newspapers as "Rambo"so shot in 2011?
your dedication to tracking wounded game is admirable
Certainly not a .22lr, but what about .17hmr?
Quite destructive on the surface, I believe?
Other than that possibility, I would agree with you: Small centrefire such as .222
HonestJohn
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Seen damage like that from a .243 and a Creedmoor as well.
If something big and fast hits the front of the snout, there’s not a lot of resistance, so I think most centrefires will start to look similar.
By contrast, I have seen an astonishingly neat hole from a copper bullet fired from a 6.5PRC. Neat calibre sized hole straight through. My own fault. Attempted head shot, misjudged a few things. Thought I’d missed because there was no reaction at all. Deer trotted off. I sneaked round the side of the hill and intercepted it on the far side. Chest shot, went down. When I went to gralloch, found the tiny hole through the snout. Gave me real pause for thought, and I’ve changed some things!
No way a .22 rf hmr or centre fire
Sausage fingers when typing don’t help
Brittany boy
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Anything that gets through the skin has a chance of being lethal, when it comes right down to it . I have zero interest ever shooting a deer with a .22 rf if it was ever legal
Sol
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More than likely a 22H in my opinion!
Dunwaters
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Too much damage for a rimmy. Looks like it could have been a small centre fire .22, maybe a Hornet?
Back when it was legal we popped quite a few with the .22, best round was a plated HV solid.
Hollow points would often open up on the skull but not penetrate.
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