A mate of mine swears by the old saying, if ya want em dead then shoot em in the headGun Barrel Ecologist wrote:You can drop them on the spot with 130g SSTs from a .270, it's just that putting the bullet in the right spot is the tricky bitmchughcb wrote:A blaserbud shot a sambar hind with a 458 Win Mag in the forward chest a few weeks ago and it was tracked with dogs for another few hundred metres and required a finisher. The moral of the story is, use the 220g woodleighs
But size doesn't matter on non dangerous game, is just putting the bullet in the right place.
That might be a 22lr to the head or a 375H&H up the clacker and through the heart.
It's putting it there where the skills come in.