ORIGINAL: Phil from Maine
Shooting through brush makes for a low percentage shot no matter what caliber you are shooting.
This a true statement, however in this neck of the woods with paper companies and lumber mills you have alot of thick growth from the cuttings and for a rifle your would be doing much better with the 30-30 and not the high power some would recommend. Other than that use a shotgun.
This is one of the reasons that I have been looking into bow hunting. The challenge of getting close enough to the game to get a clean shot and the fact that I dont have to worry about my shot going 2-3 miles before it touches ground. I love my guns, but man is it getting tough to fine someplace to hunt that isnt thick with strangers coming from the city to infest my woods lol.