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What is the most over-kill you have ever done on an animal? My dad once shot a ground squirrel with a Ruger Super Blackhawk 44 magnum. really all that was left was the tail. I once shot a horsefly with a 223. It had landed on the bullseye of my target (or at least I think I hit it there wasn't anything there to tell.
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12 gauge vs. field mouse. "where'd the mouse go?" "Huhhuh, what mouse?"
good one hijohn,
lets see the responses of the truthful sob's. I'm still sortin' out my stuff.
338 Win Mag Jack Rabbit, nothing left!
To be honest I dont see why you would want to over-kill anything. What is the purpose of that?
not proud of it but.. 12 g frog
12g to a chipmunk closerange
Slingshot on a huge housefly. Left a 3" splat on the wall. My mom about killed me.
Shot a squirrel this year with a rage 3 blade right up the butt and out the neck. Killed and cleaned in one shot.
Dang Clay I thought I was the only guy that ever shot a jack with a .338. I have shot a few prairie dogs with it as well. I suppose I should bust a cap on a picket pin with the old .338 to top you. You guys have probably seen "Best of the West" on TV where they shoot trophy game at long range, my son and I decided to create our own TV series called "Least of the East" by going around shooting the smallest bugs, little rats, minature deer, or whatever at point blank range. Do you guys think it will be successful? Before you fellows start questioning my thought processes and posting those condescending remarks I am just kidding again.
I know a guy that loves to overkill, and has plenty of time, money, and iron to do it with. He builds semi-custom dangerous game rifles. With him, I've vaporized a gray squirrel with a .338 Win at pretty close range, and blinked woodchucks from existence with a .416 Rigby. He had a .470 NE for the same that day. PMC every time!
It's not really my thing, but I couldn't help but go out and try it after hearing all his stories. I think I got it out of my system, for now.
12 ga slug at a running rabbit, double lunged it and a few more.
A praire dog with a 410. Its head was gone.
Like Clay, mine was a jackrabbit but I used a .300 win mag....messy...
A rabbit with a .270. There was not much of it left
Crow pulling up peanut plants with a .308. Two wings...
Squirrel with a 4000 pound truck???
I'd used a heavy-barreled .30-'06 bolt action on woodchucks, and a shooting companion used a .270 Win. for varmints. We spotted for each other. A 'chuck hit with either rifle was very decisively eliminated. We burned a lot more powder than our .222 or .223 rifles, and the .22 centerfires would have tagged them every bit as accurately, but not as dramatically.
.338 on a fox that was chasing my cat.
had a fly crwal down the barrel of my 22. yeeeeaaaaaahhhh.....
well i shot a coyote with a 30/30 and it was ugly
woodcock 300 WSM. (friend of mine shot it)
coyotes with a 7mm Weatherby shootin 145 Speers goin about 3400 no more coyotes
Coyote and ground hog with a .300 Weatherby.
7mm on a Pigeon...all we found was a foot.
I say one time my bro shot a hummingbird with the bb gun. literally blew it off it's perch and killed it! Well the most overkill i got was shooting a grub in my slingshot against the wall. looked like bird crap after it hit the wall. made a thunking noise
Dragon fly in mid flight with a Ruger Super Blackhawk in 44 Mag.
Well, once at a practice with Golf Battery, 3/16 Marines, the FO went after a squirrel with a battery of 105 howitzers.
Sighting in a rifle chambered in .50 BMG at a buddies farm and saw a groundhog at about 50 yards. Not much left.
I once shot a chipmunk, close range with my 12 gauge and it blew the stomach right off.
Shot a squirrel with a 12 Gauge Shotgun!!!
I shot a dragonfly with a .22
12 guage 3" magnum vs a chipmunk at 3 1/2 feet
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Slingshot on a huge housefly. Left a 3" splat on the wall. My mom about killed me.
Dang Clay I thought I was the only guy that ever shot a jack with a .338. I have shot a few prairie dogs with it as well. I suppose I should bust a cap on a picket pin with the old .338 to top you. You guys have probably seen "Best of the West" on TV where they shoot trophy game at long range, my son and I decided to create our own TV series called "Least of the East" by going around shooting the smallest bugs, little rats, minature deer, or whatever at point blank range. Do you guys think it will be successful? Before you fellows start questioning my thought processes and posting those condescending remarks I am just kidding again.
12 gauge vs. field mouse. "where'd the mouse go?" "Huhhuh, what mouse?"
good one hijohn,
lets see the responses of the truthful sob's. I'm still sortin' out my stuff.
338 Win Mag Jack Rabbit, nothing left!
To be honest I dont see why you would want to over-kill anything. What is the purpose of that?
not proud of it but.. 12 g frog
12g to a chipmunk closerange
Shot a squirrel this year with a rage 3 blade right up the butt and out the neck. Killed and cleaned in one shot.
I know a guy that loves to overkill, and has plenty of time, money, and iron to do it with. He builds semi-custom dangerous game rifles. With him, I've vaporized a gray squirrel with a .338 Win at pretty close range, and blinked woodchucks from existence with a .416 Rigby. He had a .470 NE for the same that day. PMC every time!
It's not really my thing, but I couldn't help but go out and try it after hearing all his stories. I think I got it out of my system, for now.
12 ga slug at a running rabbit, double lunged it and a few more.
A praire dog with a 410. Its head was gone.
Like Clay, mine was a jackrabbit but I used a .300 win mag....messy...
A rabbit with a .270. There was not much of it left
Crow pulling up peanut plants with a .308. Two wings...
.338 on a fox that was chasing my cat.
Squirrel with a 4000 pound truck???
I'd used a heavy-barreled .30-'06 bolt action on woodchucks, and a shooting companion used a .270 Win. for varmints. We spotted for each other. A 'chuck hit with either rifle was very decisively eliminated. We burned a lot more powder than our .222 or .223 rifles, and the .22 centerfires would have tagged them every bit as accurately, but not as dramatically.
had a fly crwal down the barrel of my 22. yeeeeaaaaaahhhh.....
well i shot a coyote with a 30/30 and it was ugly
woodcock 300 WSM. (friend of mine shot it)
coyotes with a 7mm Weatherby shootin 145 Speers goin about 3400 no more coyotes
Coyote and ground hog with a .300 Weatherby.
7mm on a Pigeon...all we found was a foot.
I say one time my bro shot a hummingbird with the bb gun. literally blew it off it's perch and killed it! Well the most overkill i got was shooting a grub in my slingshot against the wall. looked like bird crap after it hit the wall. made a thunking noise
Dragon fly in mid flight with a Ruger Super Blackhawk in 44 Mag.
Well, once at a practice with Golf Battery, 3/16 Marines, the FO went after a squirrel with a battery of 105 howitzers.
Sighting in a rifle chambered in .50 BMG at a buddies farm and saw a groundhog at about 50 yards. Not much left.
I once shot a chipmunk, close range with my 12 gauge and it blew the stomach right off.
Shot a squirrel with a 12 Gauge Shotgun!!!
I shot a dragonfly with a .22
12 guage 3" magnum vs a chipmunk at 3 1/2 feet
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