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<blockquote data-quote="Taj" data-source="post: 3068899" data-attributes="member: 98000"><p>What seems like a hundred years ago, I got a contract to do some control hunting on a military installation ....lets say in another country. Critters were fairly large, 4 to 600 lbs. Did most of it with a pre64 model 70 in '06. 150 grain factory ammo and never had to shoot one of them twice. One day I was out stompin' around with an M-16 rifle on my shoulder just doing some scouting. I had a local with me as kind of a helper and to make sure I didn't shoot anything important. We jumped a "group, herd, flock, sounder" of the target critters out of a ravine. The last one of the bunch had a busted back leg. All I had in the little "poodle shooter" was 55 grain military ball and said critter were approx 175 yards on the next hill. The local rep from the base , in broken "engrish" started yelling at me to shoot that last broken legged critter. I sat down , rested over my knees and pulled the switch, holding (with iron sights) on the point of the shoulder. It went down like a bag o' sand. That worked so well I started moving up the line and proceeded to drop 4 more, all with a single shot to the shoulder. Nary a twitch out of the 5 and I must say I was very surprised at the terminal performance of that 55 grain FMJ. Shot placement had a lot to do with it and I'm sure secondary bone frags did a lot of damage. All were shot right on the point of the shoulder.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Taj, post: 3068899, member: 98000"] What seems like a hundred years ago, I got a contract to do some control hunting on a military installation ....lets say in another country. Critters were fairly large, 4 to 600 lbs. Did most of it with a pre64 model 70 in '06. 150 grain factory ammo and never had to shoot one of them twice. One day I was out stompin' around with an M-16 rifle on my shoulder just doing some scouting. I had a local with me as kind of a helper and to make sure I didn't shoot anything important. We jumped a "group, herd, flock, sounder" of the target critters out of a ravine. The last one of the bunch had a busted back leg. All I had in the little "poodle shooter" was 55 grain military ball and said critter were approx 175 yards on the next hill. The local rep from the base , in broken "engrish" started yelling at me to shoot that last broken legged critter. I sat down , rested over my knees and pulled the switch, holding (with iron sights) on the point of the shoulder. It went down like a bag o' sand. That worked so well I started moving up the line and proceeded to drop 4 more, all with a single shot to the shoulder. Nary a twitch out of the 5 and I must say I was very surprised at the terminal performance of that 55 grain FMJ. Shot placement had a lot to do with it and I'm sure secondary bone frags did a lot of damage. All were shot right on the point of the shoulder. [/QUOTE]
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