Guys, I am not sure, maybe didn' t read the posts good enought, but I don' t think anyone was saying give a 22-250 to kids or a concern about recoil. These guys that I know in Ky that do hunt with a 22' s are very experienced hunters. The reason they use them, is they feel very confident in the rifles accuracy, and feel very confident in there skills. Maybe you guys don' t. I may be wrong, but I bet more experienced than most people on here. Maybe I am wrong.

Again I will ask the question, if these people recover their game, what does it matter?????

Jagman, again, I am not actually comparing bows and bullets, but more comparing killing to killing. If an animal is down, he down. He can' t be any more dead. The people I know that hunt this way are usually more successful than the average hunter with the 30-06 or 300win mag.