Verminator .25 drops them and crow cleans them. Both of them are beasts.

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plinker

plinker

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I decided to drop a bushy tail with a heart shot using my Verminator .25. The crow came quickly again and this time he brought his buddies. You can see it feed a young one. It ate the eyes first, then opened it up and pulled out the organs and guts. After the primary crow had enough and fed the young one they took turns. You can also see a crow grabbing insects if you watch close. The 'after' picture is crow damage. the underside was split open and a hole pecked in the side. Eyes plucked also.
 
 Someone else on the forum made a comment about how heart shots are as effective as head shots, but without the gruesome death dance. I think we shoot them in the head because we can with such precise rifles. I enjoy that precision, but it's true that a well placed shot head, neck or heart is just as good. The forcefull hit of the .25 is amazing compared to my .22. Both are just as lethal on a squirrel, but you can really see the .25 slam the body. 
 
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The squirrel had only a slight brief quiver. That was accentuated in the video because of the slow motion footage. With the head shot the action after the shot is much more dramatic and often long lasting, but I realize it's because all of the nerves are firing impulses due to the brain damage. The muscles are spastic due to the propagation of the nerve impulse and the animal turns cartwheels and all. My son made a somewhat errant shot on a whitetail deer once and you should see a 100 lb plus animal flip like a squirrel. It's quite unnerving(pun intended) : )
When non-hunters are around my father in law always says "remember, you have an audience". That means make a heart shot not a head shot with an unsuspecting onlooker. Carlos Hathcock made a similar observation in his book One shot one kill. Even seasoned professionals can be be taken aback sometimes with a seemingly gruesome death, even though you know there is no cognizant activity with such extensive damage to the brain. 
 
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This video of a head shot is a good example of the point I shared in the comments above in head shot vs heart shot. The pictures afterwards show the path of the pellet with a stick. It was through the brain from the back corner of the eye to just forward of the ear in the second picture. See the acrobatic display. Granted this is in slo-mo and edited to shorten it.
https://imgur.com/Q8jMm
 
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The interesting part of the death-dance thing is that the limb motion appears more coordinated with more distance from the head. Would seem that there is some shared processing going on in the spine to keep the rear legs hopping in sync. Tail does semi-normal tail stuff, but head and forelimbs are floppy. I know octopus are reputed to do considerable informaton processing in the arms, perhaps something of the sort applies to mammals.
 
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