a buddy of mine shot a squirrel with his 30-30 at about 100 yards not very impressive Ive seen a 22 make just as much damage. So all in all its kinda stupid to want to shoot something so small with something so big If you want results in blowing up small animals go with the lightest and fastest bullet possible. extreme expanision equals extreme terminal performance. My thought on the subject is that is kinda morbid like the other guy said dead is dead. But I suppose there are immature sickos out there that get off on that kind of thing and probably giggle like homos when they do it.