Thread: Opinion on the 7mm WSM please

Don't over complicate it. Whatever you use I'm betting if you can hit it, you will kill it.

Far too much hand wringing goes on about projectiles.

There are 3 sorts of hunter people: those who blame the bullet when they miss, those who blame the bullet if a deer runs after being hit, and those who just shrug and say "shit happens".

Sure, minimise the risks of losing or wounding a deer - but also minimise the risk of getting ulcers over it

Originally Posted by Tahr

Don't over complicate it. Whatever you use I'm betting if you can hit it, you will kill it. Far too much hand wringing goes on about projectiles.

Hmmm, don’t really agree with you there @Tahr.... there are plenty of projectiles I’d avoid like the plague, primarily the tough bonded & locked ones and the staunch monolithics designed for heavy thick skinned game when my quarry is a thin skinned redskin hind or spiker.

Too many times I’ve been with guys who’ve insisted on using something super tough and then shot it too far back and wondered why the hell it took off like a Lambo on nitrous... especially when shooting in the thick stuff like @Sarvo is talking about. Those are the ones that don’t get found and there’s long faces and I told you sos in the shed afterwards.

Gotta make an effort to match your pill to your game #not hard to do# easy in fact. There’s several cheap and proven all rounders like the ProHunters, GameKings, several of the Hornadys. You need a proper frangible fragementing pill in the woods IMO soemthing that will dump all the energy inside not run straight on through, when shot placement might be a bit iffy.