ORIGINAL: BigTiny
ORIGINAL: skb2706
Crippler is a term used to describe the shooter not the gun.
I think you are on to something there. Many .30-30 shooters hunt in thick brush where shooting at a running deer is a very distinct possibility. Lots of people here use them since much of our terrain is thicket. We also have a lot of terrible marksmen, if what I have seen at the range is any indication. Heavy brush+poor marksmanship+running deer=lost/wounded deer. No room in that equation for the type of rifle or bullet.
I thik the fact that they are in the brush is the key. Even though the 30-30 doesn't shoot a spire point doesn't mean that it won't deflect. I don't like the term "brush gun" when I started hunting I was told that the 30-30 would blow through brusha nd small saplings without going off course. Many people still believe this and they take shots without having a clear bullet path or really knowing what part of the deer they are aiming at, they just see brown and shot.
I don't say I made a good shot if I can't find a deer because you really just can't tell. Last week I took a kid out for the first time with a 30-30 he shot his first deer. The deer raered up like it was a good lung shot. Lots of blood for about 200yards then we found the deer (we took our time and didn't push him). No lung shot the kid cut the deers throat,no entrance no exit just a slash that cut the jugular and windpipe. The point is the shot looked good even from me who wasn't shooting but it wasn't and we didn't know it till we found the deer.
