Thread: just Varminting - how far was your longest shot on your last walk

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

in one of my Nosler reloading manuals they address this very well...they were shooting something similar to rabbits ,one fella was using a target projectile for its extra accuracy the other a slightly less accurate but expanding projectile.....the less accurate projectile is more humaine as body hits produce instant results...the less expanding (as your fmj would be) will let alot of animals crawl away.

I thought an fmj would still make a rabbit explode. From the velocity etc.