Thread: Picked up new rifle today.

Originally Posted by Moa Hunter

It is not 'for the life of you' that a premium projectile should be used @Micky Duck, it is 'for the humane quick death of the deer'. The following link put up by Russian 22 can be followed to an article on projectile testing done here in NZ https://web.archive.org/web/20130208....nz/howto.html. The big heavy round-nose projectiles were worst at through scrub deflection. Swift Sirrocco came out best all round. Well worth reading as there is a lot more than what I have written here

Norma did a deflection test years ago too using dowels. Round nose performed no better than spire point.