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Originally Posted by HOLLiS
BTW, This is my son's first hunting season.
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Forgive the hijack, but this statement reminded me of something I was thinking about the other day. There's much ballyhoo over 'stopping power' and 'one shot kills' coming out of theater, and besides the Hollywierd influcence, I think another big reason is a significant lack of hunting experience in today's youth. Anyone that's hunted big game knows that even the 'one shot' larger hunting calibers (i.e. .308, 30-06, 7mm, etc) rarely put the animal down immediately. You can get a good sidelong shot that perforates both lungs, shreds the heart and fractures the shoulders, and you'll still follow a 50m bloodtrail to find the body before the animal bleeds out and stops. A buddy went antelope hunting last week with his .308, got a lucky frontal shot that hit low on her chest, split the sternum, lacerated the heart and just about field dressed her on the spot, and she still ran/jumped 25m before coming to a stop. Folks that don't hunt just don't understand the power of the will to live despite mortal wounds, I think.