Originally Posted by
LONGHUNTER1750
Hollow points! for quick clean kills, and it's still no guarantee. I've had many of them crawl off with a HP through both ears, but I've had even more crawl away with head shots from solid points. I shot these two this morning, the big fox took a 36gr HP in the left ear and it exited his right eye taking a big hunk of his skull with it and he still crawled a good ten feet, I found him half way under a small brush pile. HP's are not a sure thing but the odds of them getting under cover or in a hole are far lower than with solid points.
Good rat smakn!!! Hey LH, what kind of rifle is that? Looks good!! I have found that both of my main tree rat smackers are fond of Eley Subsonic Match HP and Federal Gold Medal Match Solids. Either one puts them DRT. Both shoot sub 1/2" 5 shot groups at 50yds. Fully tricked out 10-22 and a Mossberg 144 LSB. Head shots only. No body shots.