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Do larger calibers really compensate for bad shots?
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<blockquote data-quote="Gcan" data-source="post: 1742306" data-attributes="member: 102867"><p>Yes. Precision counts but this is a discussion about what happens when the precision isn't so precise. Id love to say Id never made a bad shot. I have. A heart shot is a heart shot with pretty much anything. But not all shoulder shots are the same. </p><p>30 years ago my friend Larry and I were hunting Newfoundland way out in the bush. Larry shot a bull moose in the shoulder with his 270 at about 120 yards and near dark. Loud "WACK". The moose flinched but stood there. Larry shot the moose one more time in the sweet spot within a few inches of the first shot. The moose was hurt but showed no signs of a mortal hit and started walking away to the left. Larry does the Einstein "stupid" thing and repeats the experiment. He shoots him again in the same spot, while the guide is telling him to chest shoot the moose. I shot the moose with a 180 gr partition out of my 300WM and broke both shoulders. Nose dive in the bog! When we cleaned the moose none of the 270s were fatal, even though they looked like perfect shots. Only one 270 had made it thru the shoulder into the front of a lung. My shot was in the same spot. I wasn't shooting at anything immediately fatal, but I knew I could break both shoulders with my 300. Bigger is better on a marginal shot. Sometimes its better on a good shot too. I have always liked BIG guns. Have plenty of small guns I enjoy shooting. I use them on hogs or coyotes, but I simply want to hunt game animals with more than what some people would think necessary. </p><p>After all, a rem 700 in 338 win, 300UM, 300WSM or 338UM really doesn't weigh appreciably more than a 270 or 06 or a 6.5 anything. (Oops. Another subject)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gcan, post: 1742306, member: 102867"] Yes. Precision counts but this is a discussion about what happens when the precision isn’t so precise. Id love to say Id never made a bad shot. I have. A heart shot is a heart shot with pretty much anything. But not all shoulder shots are the same. 30 years ago my friend Larry and I were hunting Newfoundland way out in the bush. Larry shot a bull moose in the shoulder with his 270 at about 120 yards and near dark. Loud “WACK”. The moose flinched but stood there. Larry shot the moose one more time in the sweet spot within a few inches of the first shot. The moose was hurt but showed no signs of a mortal hit and started walking away to the left. Larry does the Einstein “stupid” thing and repeats the experiment. He shoots him again in the same spot, while the guide is telling him to chest shoot the moose. I shot the moose with a 180 gr partition out of my 300WM and broke both shoulders. Nose dive in the bog! When we cleaned the moose none of the 270s were fatal, even though they looked like perfect shots. Only one 270 had made it thru the shoulder into the front of a lung. My shot was in the same spot. I wasn’t shooting at anything immediately fatal, but I knew I could break both shoulders with my 300. Bigger is better on a marginal shot. Sometimes its better on a good shot too. I have always liked BIG guns. Have plenty of small guns I enjoy shooting. I use them on hogs or coyotes, but I simply want to hunt game animals with more than what some people would think necessary. After all, a rem 700 in 338 win, 300UM, 300WSM or 338UM really doesn’t weigh appreciably more than a 270 or 06 or a 6.5 anything. (Oops. Another subject) [/QUOTE]
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