Thread: Karamojo Bell comments

Originally Posted by 257weatherby

Inuit Eskimo, "back in the day" favored the .222 because they could do it in small light rifles with ammo that weighed fuck all, on a dog sled or kayak it mattered, and they used it on polar bears! Think I'd want something a whole lot bigger.....

Me too

But those guys who live in the land know their target so well that they can do this

I know an old possumer who mostly shoots with 22 WMR because he has a small rifle just in case he has to put down one of his horses
He's shot some pretty impressive red stags with that little rifle
He explained to me one night in front of a camp fire that he will have seen that stag most days for a week or even months before he goes to shoot it
He knows where he will be on a certain day in certain weather
He knows when he will be there
He knows who will be with him
He knows what he will be going to eat
So he's sitting somewhere along that old stags route to that place and he's there well before the stag
So he gets a very close clear shot with his 22 wmr
Like Bell job done