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From: dambrose@dri.com (David Ambrose)
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Subject: Re: .223 to little for deer, but big enough for people?
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Date: 19 Apr 91 12:01:03 GMT
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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.
>

	There's a major difference in mission between military uses
and hunting.  When hunting, the primary goal is to kill the animal as
quickly and surely as possible.  For the military, it is much more
advantageous to severely wound and disable the enemy soldiers.  Once
wounded it takes at least 2 other soldiers to carry the wounded
soldier from the battlefield.  So, for the military, it's more
advantageous to disable and wound, than it is to kill.

	Don't know whether this qualifies as educated, but the guy
saying it had 2 stars on his collar. ;)

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