hmm never seen that little of damage with the vmax before, they must be a hell of alot tougher then the gophers up here. last summer my cousin and I went out shooting gophers with his 17hmr and my .22 we acounted for over 50 confirmed kills in the 2 1/2 hours we were out. i shot infront of gopher once the bullet hit the dirt and fragmented, one fragment cought the gopher in the face and he floped around for a second until i pumped another into him. another gopher was shot in the rear end and it spilt him up the stomach, it looked like somone was going to skin him. he was complete capped out. another gopher was about 90 or so yards away from us and i poped him in the head and all that was left was his sholders and bits of his skull fragments.