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Barrel twist and length?
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<blockquote data-quote="Jungleexplorer" data-source="post: 1015999" data-attributes="member: 56322"><p>Thanks for the link. I have a question though about a statement in the article. </p><p></p><p>"<em>A hunter's objective is normally to cause significant soft tissue damage, especially to the heart and lungs, so that the animal dies quickly, minimizing the chance of losing the kill"</em> </p><p></p><p>I am just wondering why this mentality of destroying as much meat as possible (maximizing soft tissue damage) is the desired norm when it comes to hunting, rather then precision shot placement to a vital area (i.e. ear, eye, neck vertebrae etc.) ? I was trained as a child to rely on precision shot placement. Between my father and I we have killed everything from Canadian black bears to 800 pound Amazon Tapirs with standard 22 long rifles because of anatomical understanding of vital kill areas and precision shot placement. Every year I process around 20 deer (for the poor and needy) that come from big game ranches and I find it quite disturbing the amount of meat that is wasted by this mentality, especially when a 100 pound whitetail is shot through the chest with a 300 WinMag. Having not grown up in this country, I just don't understand this way of thinking. But I am a meat hunter, not a Trophy hunter, so that may explain it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jungleexplorer, post: 1015999, member: 56322"] Thanks for the link. I have a question though about a statement in the article. "[I]A hunter's objective is normally to cause significant soft tissue damage, especially to the heart and lungs, so that the animal dies quickly, minimizing the chance of losing the kill"[/I] I am just wondering why this mentality of destroying as much meat as possible (maximizing soft tissue damage) is the desired norm when it comes to hunting, rather then precision shot placement to a vital area (i.e. ear, eye, neck vertebrae etc.) ? I was trained as a child to rely on precision shot placement. Between my father and I we have killed everything from Canadian black bears to 800 pound Amazon Tapirs with standard 22 long rifles because of anatomical understanding of vital kill areas and precision shot placement. Every year I process around 20 deer (for the poor and needy) that come from big game ranches and I find it quite disturbing the amount of meat that is wasted by this mentality, especially when a 100 pound whitetail is shot through the chest with a 300 WinMag. Having not grown up in this country, I just don't understand this way of thinking. But I am a meat hunter, not a Trophy hunter, so that may explain it. [/QUOTE]
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