Wow, take a few days off to go elk hunting and things get interesting while your gone...story of my life.

While I do feel the Snyper is a good mechanical, if I absolutely had to shoot a mech on elk, the Snyper wouldn't be my first choice. The reason I feel this way comes from an experience I had last fall.

I should preface my experience by saying that I too shot the snypers into plywood, steel drum, etc.. All the testing indicated that it would perform very nicely on whitetails. Early in the season I took a doe with a snyper. The shot wasn't one of my best as it got the liver and one lung. I followed an adequate blood trail into the corn and found the doe in short order. She was laying down in the corn row but she wasn't dead. I could have left and came back later but that seemed cruel to me seeing that she was laboring to breath. To make a long story short the follow up shot put an end to her but the tip of the head was curled over like the toe of a court jester's shoe. The head hit nothing but bone and did not completely pass through the animal.

I can easily accept CG's description of his friends experience and I am not really surprised by the outcome. There is no doubt in my mind that the tip of the head broke off on the way in. If there is any surprise in this saga it is that CG's friend got as much penetration as he did.

On the flip side I have a buddy that blew comletely through an elk last year shooting 54 pounds of KE. Of course he was using a fixed blade head.