Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!erb1!osnome!hunting From: jimiii@mips.com (Jim Warford) Newsgroups: rec.hunting Subject: Re: .223 to little for deer, but big enough for people? Message-ID: <562@erb1.engr.wisc.edu> Date: 19 Apr 91 12:00:56 GMT References: <544@erb1.engr.wisc.edu> Sender: news@erb1.engr.wisc.edu Distribution: world Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, California Lines: 39 Approved: hunting@osnome.che.wisc.edu In article <544@erb1.engr.wisc.edu> tas@sat.datapoint.com (Tom Stewart) writes: > >If anyone would care to express an educated (or not so educated) >opinion on why 55-65 gr. bullets work on people but not whitetails >I'd appreciate it. > In war, if you kill your enemy you have taken 1 enemy out of the battle. If you wound him you have taken him out of the battle and also the people who supply medical aid and logistics. There is also the psycological effect of a wounded screaming man. Thus wounding with smaller lighter bullets make more sense in war (if anything about war makes sense). In hunting if you kill your target, you dress it and eat it. If you wound it, you must track it and finish it off. Depending on how far and fast the animal runs before you finish it off the meat may get tougher and gamier not to mention the unnecessary suffering of the wounded animals and the slow death of the animals which were shot by hunters not responsible enough to track them down. I once took a questionable shot at an elk and wounded it. It covered almost 20 miles and took me most of the night and half the next day to catch up and find it (it was dead or I may never have caught it). This was in snow about 6-12 inches deep so the tracking was easy. The same situation without snow and I may have never found the animal as after the first mile the blood spots were rather infrequent. I have never taken a shot since then unless I was 99.99999% sure of a clean kill. --jimiii@mips.com -- Faster horses Younger women Older whiskey More money!