jees, that was quick you got it while I was typing!leec6.5 said:i haad an old boy i know call me on sunday mornng , sounding a little sheepish . so i went over to see him and it turned out he had shot a roe buck with his .22 mag
basicly he was out lamping foxes and saw a set of eyes at a base of a hedge and was adiment at was a fox and shot it ! killed it stone dead .
ive used a 22 for humaine dispatch several times but im not so sure about stalking with it !
cheers lee
Muir said:8x57: Maybe I'm just trying to draw heat off of the 6.5x55 thread???
leec6.5 said:i haad an old boy i know call me on sunday mornng , sounding a little sheepish . so i went over to see him and it turned out he had shot a roe buck with his .22 mag
basicly he was out lamping foxes and saw a set of eyes at a base of a hedge and was adiment at was a fox and shot it ! killed it stone dead .
Saw a set of eyes! Quarry recognition? What or who gets shot next? Stuff like this should never happen. its a basic rule that if you cannot tell what it is you do not shoot. As has been said a good many times by members DEAD IS DEAD. I dont suppose the buck worried to much that it was a .22 Mag.
cheers lee
JC275 said:I recall about three or four years ago there were, I think, three human fatalities due to idiots like Lee's aquaintance shooting at eyes JC