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The Basics, Starting Out
270win - ok - but looking for something with more punch
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<blockquote data-quote="GrayCreed" data-source="post: 2343224" data-attributes="member: 114633"><p>I think this may be why your elk are walking away, I may not know much but alot of folks on here talk about "aiming for the crease." Death is always painful, we owe it to the animal to make death as quick as possible hence why some people aim crease, shoulder, and so on. Archers shoot at the lungs because arrows kill by slicing through the skin lungs and chest so the animal bleeds and the lungs fill up with blood (or collapse from air in the cavity). Also, adrenaline may help the animal to not notice pain as much until they are dead in 3-5 seconds. So trying to reduce adrenaline spikes may not be the best thing for trying to reduce pain to the animal. Honestly the only fast painless death is a 22LR between the eyes. But at hunting distances this is impractical because the chance of missing the brain and hitting say the jaw or nose would case the animal a great deal of pain and lead to a slow death or no death.</p><p>If you really want a 338, get one for yourself. I would look at some of threads on here and videos on YT that address the issue of shot placement. I would argue that lung deaths do cause pain because part of it is the chest cavity filling with air which can be very painful.</p><p>A 1-5 sec death on the ground DRT is better than a 30sec- 5 min death from only lung trama as the animal runs off.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GrayCreed, post: 2343224, member: 114633"] I think this may be why your elk are walking away, I may not know much but alot of folks on here talk about "aiming for the crease." Death is always painful, we owe it to the animal to make death as quick as possible hence why some people aim crease, shoulder, and so on. Archers shoot at the lungs because arrows kill by slicing through the skin lungs and chest so the animal bleeds and the lungs fill up with blood (or collapse from air in the cavity). Also, adrenaline may help the animal to not notice pain as much until they are dead in 3-5 seconds. So trying to reduce adrenaline spikes may not be the best thing for trying to reduce pain to the animal. Honestly the only fast painless death is a 22LR between the eyes. But at hunting distances this is impractical because the chance of missing the brain and hitting say the jaw or nose would case the animal a great deal of pain and lead to a slow death or no death. If you really want a 338, get one for yourself. I would look at some of threads on here and videos on YT that address the issue of shot placement. I would argue that lung deaths do cause pain because part of it is the chest cavity filling with air which can be very painful. A 1-5 sec death on the ground DRT is better than a 30sec- 5 min death from only lung trama as the animal runs off. [/QUOTE]
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