FMJ does fuck all to them. :ORLY: Ballistic tip 50gr AE could create some fairly large holes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ground Control
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FMJ does fuck all to them. :ORLY: Ballistic tip 50gr AE could create some fairly large holes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ground Control
Not that it really matters as it isn't worth the risk, but how much damage would a projectile on its way "back down" do? I mean you're probably going to be shooting almost straight up, so wouldn't it more than likely only be traveling at terminal velocity when it came back down?
Again...would never do it if not confident of backstop, but am curious.
From what I can remember from my high school physics lessons (which I did not pay all that much attention to) you are correct about a bullet shot vertically into the air falling at terminal velocity.
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Originally Posted by Rushy
Celebratory gunfire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia you're right and it seems to happen a bit
Holy shit!
*study by the U.S.*Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
*(CDC) found that 80% of celebratory gunfire-related injuries are to the head, feet, and shoulders.[4]
*InPuerto Rico
, about two people die and about 25 more are injured each year from celebratory gunfire on New Year's Eve, the CDC says.[5]
*Between the years 1985 and 1992, doctors at the*King/Drew Medical Center
*in*Los Angeles, California
, treated some 118 people for random falling-bullet injuries. Thirty-eight of them died.[6]
Kuwaitis
*celebrating in 1991 at the end of the*Gulf War
*by firing weapons into the air caused 20 deaths from falling bullets.[6]
Vertically fired rifle bullets come back down backwards and still spinning. Angled bullets are likely to come down nose first unless very steeply angled. Shotgun pellets are way safer. I was hit in the neck by a shotgun pellet that was fired 'over the horizon' at a pigeon. It went through the pigeon, struck a bone and took a chip of the bone out the pigeon with it still attached, and struck me on the neck. The pellet and bone fragment stuck to my neck where it hit. It did sting. The bone fragment wasn't much bigger than the pellet (no. 7) but the pellet was lodged inside it. Distance was well over 100m.
9mm works great, but ya can't go past a 410 shotty for possums :yarr:
I use a shotgun 99% of the time but if you do need to use something bigger it can be done but be fuckin careful I've used 223 and larger a few times but was bloody careful when where and how
22's are bloody dangerous as a lot of guys don't realize just how far they go
shotgun is the safest bird shot will only go anywhere between 300m-600m depending on the load used and falling birdshot although it is un comfortable it is not fatal to farm animals etc 22lr will go 3x that if fired on the right angle
I've had falling shotgun pellets all around me. They're just falling pellets. Not the same as being caught in the trajectory though! My problem with a shotgun is how one caries 100 shotshells around? Then there is the noise. So one day I bought a single shot shotty with the idea of suppressing it. That would mean loading subsonic rounds. Reloading shotshells? Well yes, I have a Lee shot shell loader already. A suppressed shotgun is going to be a bit longer than a 22 but won't be too bad. I'm figuring on fitting a scope to it just to actually see and identify the target. Thinking of that, I once saw an owl where a possum might be expected to be but I new about owls and their eyes are slightly different to possums eyes but in the trees one could shoot an owl by mistake!
You can use RWS 34 because you need power at distance and shot placement. If you shot in heart or lung, you will definitely kill them. But before hunting you should do little practice.
I will confess years ago I put a .22 mag up the ring-gear of a treed possum only 4m above me. Fun part was the shot went clean through the animal, and cleanly cut through the power line to our farm and several other properties..... Shottie is good.
I've used a .223 on the tree bears many times, all long range (up to 170m) on the ground shots, during the times you catch them on the ground just on dusk or after dark.
Would have been out of range for the .22 or shottie.
Very dead possum, not as much fur recoverable as with a .22. :D
I've HS'ed a possum twice with a .177 1000+ fps pellet, and it was still floppin around. Ended up having to give it the old 1-2 with a rock to finish it off. Gimme a .22 anyday. Its not like you have to rush when taking the shot so just pick your angle right and you will be sweetQuote:
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possum in trees = 12g, no woundies or second shots.
I've used a .22 air rifle on possums, mainly shot em between the eyes. Dead as a dodo.
Lately magpies have been teasing me when I have my 17hmr, in places where if I missed the bullet would go miles. I haven't risked it.
I like to take shots at animals in trees where there is the trunk or a crap tonne of branches behind them. That way of I do miss I can be certain the bullet wont go off in the distance.
Hi,i do most of my shooting possie close t farm buildings,either 410 or 44mag with shotshells,the 44mag only tickles them and usually they fall on the dog when they let go then its the boot
Jeez, that sounds bloody awful. A possum is after all a living,feeling animal and as such it should be afforded a humane death, if you must kill it.
.223 too big...22 cool...I have shot literally hundreds of them; if you miss a possum in a tree you should think about doing something else with the night...:)Quote:
Originally Posted by rs200nz
My take would be not safe to do even a .22LR as it is above the skyline and you cannot make sure the fall zone is safe and clear.....ergo, shotgun.Quote:
Originally Posted by rs200nz
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