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We all know and love the.long going "Head Shot Thread". A head shot doesn't always present itself as the best option. Show off your heart and lung punches.


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Chipper at 37y. Had been raiding the feeder and digging tunnels all over.the place. Waiting for him to present a shot all morning. Had him in the crosshairs around 9:50 but a chickadee alarm call sent him darting. Just about 10min ago I see him working down tbe berm from a tunnel entrance. Straight to the feeder. I hit him on his return trip. A tree trunk was in the way of the headshot so I chose thoracic treatment. You can see the peanuts and sunflower kernels he was carrying with him

Fx impact mk2pp, 700 superior, 23gr .218 HP slug @ 980fps.
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RoosterCogburn said:
We all know and love the.long going "Head Shot Thread". A head shot doesn't always present itself as the best option. Show off your heart and lung punches.


I'll start


Chipper at 37y. Had been raiding the feeder and digging tunnels all over.the place. Waiting for him to present a shot all morning. Had him in the crosshairs around 9:50 but a chickadee alarm call sent him darting. Just about 10min ago I see him working down tbe berm from a tunnel entrance. Straight to the feeder. I hit him on his return trip. A tree trunk was in the way of the headshot so I chose thoracic treatment. You can see the peanuts and sunflower kernels he was carrying with him

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yes i agree, sometimes I gotta make the shot count on critters that destroy my farm equipment and a brain shot is not always available like i prefer.
but with it placed right it can be just as efficient.......👨‍🌾
 
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Vulcan 3
30cal 62.5g @ 1000 fps / 139 fpe

Well, this didn't workout how I planned. Didn't even try to clean this thing. The rabbit was facing me on an angle so my idea was to hit him on the left side shoulder and would punch through the vitals diagonally and exit the right side in front of the guts. Well slug angled much less than I thought it would go and wound up blowing his guts out....no more vital shots unless the rabbit is perfectly sideways from my position. Any angled or head on shots get headshot.

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ZekeZX10 said:
Vulcan 3
30cal 62.5g @ 1000 fps / 139 fpe

Well, this didn't workout how I planned. Didn't even try to clean this thing. The rabbit was facing me on an angle so my idea was to hit him on the left side shoulder and would punch through the vitals diagonally and exit the right side in front of the guts. Well slug angled much less than I thought it would go and wound up blowing his guts out....no more vital shots unless the rabbit is perfectly sideways from my position. Any angled or head on shots get headshot.

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Definitely not what you want to see when you walk up to retrieve. Quartering on or away shots are reserved for domeshots with me too now. I had a squirrel walking away. And I was shooting 15gr dish slugs that usually penetrate a good distance and mushroom... so it figure i can get away with a Texas heart shot... hit
Just left of the spine, right above the b-hole. Hits with a loud thud. He falls off the tree. I get about 10 feet away and he claws to the first tree he can get to and using front arms only gets about 8 feet up. And plops down in the first crease. I can see.him breathing deep. Struggling to move. Felt really bad. So I put one through his head. But the slug, had it not expanded so much would've been on a path for the heart. Instead it opened up and veered up. Shredded his intestines and wedged up against the backbone at th3 junction of the abdomen and thorax. No more quartering shots with soft lead expanding projectiles.
 
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RoosterCogburn said:
We all know and love the.long going "Head Shot Thread". A head shot doesn't always present itself as the best option. Show off your heart and lung punches.


I'll start


Chipper at 37y. Had been raiding the feeder and digging tunnels all over.the place. Waiting for him to present a shot all morning. Had him in the crosshairs around 9:50 but a chickadee alarm call sent him darting. Just about 10min ago I see him working down tbe berm from a tunnel entrance. Straight to the feeder. I hit him on his return trip. A tree trunk was in the way of the headshot so I chose thoracic treatment. You can see the peanuts and sunflower kernels he was carrying with him

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@RoosterCogburn There’s one of these types of threads that was started in 2022. I guess it sort of died off late last year. May as well link the two threads.

This is a VITAL thread

Post your Vitals experiences here. No head shots allowed, just vitals. Was it DRT? Did it scurry away a few yards ? Did it run off all together? I probably shoot squirrels 50/50 head vs vitals & I’m generally pretty successful with either method. I find that a Vitals shot gives me a little...
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This is gonna be a duplicate post so if you already saw it on separate thread, oh well :p I should have put it here to begin with. I've been messing around with really slow moving pellets and having a blast, here is a vital shot @ 5.5fpe on a ringneck and still got a pass through, was about 12 yards.

This tune is strictly for backyard plinking under 20 yds so I wanted under 7fpe and still be under 1/4" at 15 yards. Here are my chrono results with different pellets below. I was out of the 25.83g Rangemasters so only made 2 shots, shooting the 25.83g Rangemasters is awesome, like lobbing a bowling ball.

I was out of everything but my backup stash of Gamo 15.43g when this Ringneck Dove decided to join the native doves and won't have any of that. Only about 417fps / 5.5fpe and still got a pass through!

Hmmmm, dove breast


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