ORIGINAL: ol eagle eyes
ORIGINAL: Gangly
However, all of us will eventually make a bad enough shot to where the size of the round prolly wouldnt make much of a difference...
I shot a beautiful buck with afriends 270 that he said he had sighted in.He didnt tell me that he sighted it into only hit paper at100 yards (not even sure if thats true) and so obviouslyall i did to the deer was wound it at 169 yards. Searched for 2 days for the deer andnever found anything but a chunk of meat from the location where he was shot at. I could have KILLED my friend for that. From that day on I have decided that I would do everything i could to keep from just wounding another animal. Best way i see that happening is to use more gun than neccessary and toshoot only your gun that you sighted in and are comfortable shooting. Leave guesswork to other people who dont know better.
Gangly, that sux about the lost deer. But I am confused if your saying had you used something more powerful than the 270 you would possibly have inflicted enbough damage to recover it? because you start off by saying "...the size of the round prolly wouldnt make much of a difference..."
I firmly believe if i had a larger round that itwouldnt have made a difference. Thats why i said that some shots are bad enough to where it doesnt matter the size of the round. I guess i could have worded a little better or something, but what i was trying to say was that sometimes the shot is horrible and it wouldnt matter what size ammunitions you are using, it wouldnt make a difference like in the deer i wounded. However, in some cases haveing a larger round would definately be of assistance, I just dont ever want to have to come across that situation so I try to stay a little over-gunned so that it never happens. I dont needto hunt with my 30-30 or my 30-06, but i just feel more secure in making a good clean kill shot witheither of those rifles at 200 yards than shooting at a deer head 200 yards away with a 22-250 or a gun ofthe same sorts.I just think its best to go bigger and go for a more realistic and larger target(chestor broadside)shot (not that there arent plenty of people capable of doing deer head shots at 200 yards), but the margin of error is a lot worse when shooting at a head.