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New Beast from Allen Precision Shooting!!!
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<blockquote data-quote="Fiftydriver" data-source="post: 1616945" data-attributes="member: 10"><p>While i like your style, i DO NOT recommend using this or any other large caliber cartridge firing solid projos for prairie dogs. The reason is because of the high risk of bullets traveling some very long dostances after initial impact. A 700 gr class solid can travel miles after impact making it a nessesity that every bullet fired is controlled at or very near impact location in a very positive way, beat way, several feed under the ground or slapped against a steel plate hard enough to make the projo splinter into harmless pieces, well, relatively harmless. I have on two occasions killed rockchucks with my 510 Allen Magnums shooting the 815 gr. Lehigh bore riders with indirect fire technique, actually on purpose. Both were at ranges in the 900-1100 yard range.</p><p></p><p>Both chucks were laying flat on a big flat rock, could only see a very small portion of them from our shooting position. Not enough to take a clear shot with, however, they were also laying in a location that had a large flat, HARD rock surface just behind where they were sprawled out soaking up the sun. </p><p></p><p>In both cases, i hit the rock surface, roughly a foot above where the chuck was laying and on impact, the bullet frags pounded the chucks to instantly kill them. Looked like they had been shot with a 12 gauge.</p><p></p><p>So in the immediate impact location, not exactly harmless pieces of projos!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fiftydriver, post: 1616945, member: 10"] While i like your style, i DO NOT recommend using this or any other large caliber cartridge firing solid projos for prairie dogs. The reason is because of the high risk of bullets traveling some very long dostances after initial impact. A 700 gr class solid can travel miles after impact making it a nessesity that every bullet fired is controlled at or very near impact location in a very positive way, beat way, several feed under the ground or slapped against a steel plate hard enough to make the projo splinter into harmless pieces, well, relatively harmless. I have on two occasions killed rockchucks with my 510 Allen Magnums shooting the 815 gr. Lehigh bore riders with indirect fire technique, actually on purpose. Both were at ranges in the 900-1100 yard range. Both chucks were laying flat on a big flat rock, could only see a very small portion of them from our shooting position. Not enough to take a clear shot with, however, they were also laying in a location that had a large flat, HARD rock surface just behind where they were sprawled out soaking up the sun. In both cases, i hit the rock surface, roughly a foot above where the chuck was laying and on impact, the bullet frags pounded the chucks to instantly kill them. Looked like they had been shot with a 12 gauge. So in the immediate impact location, not exactly harmless pieces of projos!! [/QUOTE]
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