Confirmed that doing surgery to find your shot in a scrawny pheasant or rabbit is bullshit.
Confirmed that doing surgery to find your shot in a scrawny pheasant or rabbit is bullshit.
Actually they're typically "the best", you just take a shot shell that's got relatively low amounts of powder, small mass projectiles, and a large amount of them - there's a ridiculous number of differences (not just in regards to powder/mass/#) between shot shells, I'll never care to learn all of it tbh. The lb/ft^2 per projectile can get much lower than even a .22 LR shot from a very short barrel
Your selection could be such that projectiles will probably (at some distance) fuck a turkey's central nervous system with head/neck hits but not be able to penetrate their feathers/hide. Turkeys are deceptively tough
Dunno for sure the rationale between outright banning 22s but I'd posit that the shotgun/ammo selection for turkeys would be less lethal to a human than a 22 LR even out of a pistol and it's a bit more "sporty" to use a shotgun, with a .22 rifle you can probably wipe out turkeys at a much greater rate than the shotgun loaded with shot that absolutely cannot get you a kill at 100 yards (lots of use of decoys/camo/calls for turkey hunting and kills are more in the 20-40 yard range)
edit: yeah, it seems from cursory google searching that accidental "shootings" occur most often turkey hunting
Afaik, legit hunters pick a size of round/slugs and powder for the specific hunt that can penetrate skin and protection and deliver all that energy into the animals body without being too strong and passing through, maybe letting the animal limp off to survive a misplaced shot.
Proper setup will have the bullet penetrate and deliver all that power into the tissue to fuck it up without just piercing through and leaving out the other end. It's kinda like how youd prefer a round to stay small and go right through you than get lodged and lost inside you. Alternatively, hunters could go big and just destroy the animal with larger guns, but that usually defeats the purpose of trophy or food hunting.
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you need to use a varmint rifle
trust me I played rdr2
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ay/1961573001/
Normal fucking country.
Most states have seasonal hunting and firearm type laws. You don't hunt based on what round or weapon you want to use or what works best. You can't just pick a larger gun if your want to explode the animal. You hunt with what you have to and are forced to hunt with given current seasonal laws.
Here's a snip of NJ during legal season:
It is unlawful to possess in the woods and fields shot larger than #4 fine shot except for hunting deer, bear, waterfowl, woodchuck (farmers only) and coyote/fox during the Special Permit Coyote and Fox Season. This shall not apply to the lawful use of ammunition for air guns; see Air Guns, this page.
Rimfire and centerfire rifles are not legal to hunt deer.
See sections on specific game animals for permitted firearms and ammunition. See table on Deer Hunting Regulations for sporting arms legal for deer hunting.
No person shall use a shotgun capable of holding more than three shells at one time or that may be fired more than three times without reloading except for the September Canada goose season (see Trapping Regulations) and during a light goose conservation order season, if any.
You can't hunt deer with rifles in NJ? Weird.
So then why would they even make all the different types of ammo of they weren't meant to be used for different situations?
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https://www.dexerto.com/general/walm...ootings-893991
Walmart removing ads of violent video games from their stores.
You can still buy guns there though.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...oice-concerns/
You can at least Google it. It only takes 10 seconds
My local Walmart does not sell guns as far as I know. They sell a lot of components (grips, stocks, barrels, sights, etc.), but not the gun itself.
I would guess it varies from region to region. Though I do live in a more conservative, "upstate" area of NY.