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What Is The Best Hunting Cartridge To 500 yds.
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<blockquote data-quote="greenejc" data-source="post: 1752772" data-attributes="member: 60453"><p>How about if your shot was a quartering shot through the front shoulder? or a less than perfect hit? A round has to reach the animal with enough energy to penetrate the animal, hit vital organs and preferably exit from angles and with hits that are not perfect. This gets more important at distances beyond 200 yards. A 9mm bullet (any weight) might do it if it didn't hit a heavy bone and get deflected, if you could get close enough, but you might have to blood trail the elk into the next county to recover him. And if you were close enough for a contact shot, he just might stomp you into the ground before he left to die in the deepest, darkest, most tangled patch of woods he could find. The topic is the best cartridge for distances to 500 yards. I don't think any of the pistol rounds make it within this criteria. Diddlyv said he's eaten a lot of cattle shot in the head at pt blank range with a 22 short. I have too. I've also seen them and 9mm luger(parabellum) rounds bounce off of both cow and pig skulls when killing them for butchering. That gets exciting. If its all the same to you, I think I like the extra power of a heavier rifle round like a 280 or a 30-06, thank you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greenejc, post: 1752772, member: 60453"] How about if your shot was a quartering shot through the front shoulder? or a less than perfect hit? A round has to reach the animal with enough energy to penetrate the animal, hit vital organs and preferably exit from angles and with hits that are not perfect. This gets more important at distances beyond 200 yards. A 9mm bullet (any weight) might do it if it didn't hit a heavy bone and get deflected, if you could get close enough, but you might have to blood trail the elk into the next county to recover him. And if you were close enough for a contact shot, he just might stomp you into the ground before he left to die in the deepest, darkest, most tangled patch of woods he could find. The topic is the best cartridge for distances to 500 yards. I don't think any of the pistol rounds make it within this criteria. Diddlyv said he's eaten a lot of cattle shot in the head at pt blank range with a 22 short. I have too. I've also seen them and 9mm luger(parabellum) rounds bounce off of both cow and pig skulls when killing them for butchering. That gets exciting. If its all the same to you, I think I like the extra power of a heavier rifle round like a 280 or a 30-06, thank you. [/QUOTE]
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