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    I hope so. Its something ive all ways done, and it can at times be surprising. occasionally you will go gosh, i was lucky to get that animal!

    So This is what I would ask. Given that my projectile was a third heavier when it started, and ended up appx half the weight of yours.

    Do you think your projectile would have killed that boar on the same shot as well?

    Because I have my doubts, and If I was using your choice, I would have knelt and gone for a head shot.

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    Quote Originally Posted by whanahuia View Post
    I hope so. Its something ive all ways done, and it can at times be surprising. occasionally you will go gosh, i was lucky to get that animal!

    So This is what I would ask. Given that my projectile was a third heavier when it started, and ended up appx half the weight of yours.

    Do you think your projectile would have killed that boar on the same shot as well?

    Because I have my doubts, and If I was using your choice, I would have knelt and gone for a head shot.
    The Hammer as above would have.
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    Quote Originally Posted by whanahuia View Post
    I hope so. Its something ive all ways done, and it can at times be surprising. occasionally you will go gosh, i was lucky to get that animal!

    So This is what I would ask. Given that my projectile was a third heavier when it started, and ended up appx half the weight of yours.

    Do you think your projectile would have killed that boar on the same shot as well?

    Because I have my doubts, and If I was using your choice, I would have knelt and gone for a head shot.
    I would have taken that shot with confidence with an 80ELDM. I would expect it to work well. We may end up differing in that opinion. Unfortunately answering the question requires speculation until we find a good sample size of experimental boars to test.

    I haven't seen any results in the animals I have shot that would lead me to lack confidence in that shot. The 80s have penetrated well and broken big bones on everything. The biggest pig I have shot with them was probably about 40-50kg and the bullet penetrated fully through both shoulders hitting some bones and was under the skin on the far side.

 

 

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