Beretta686
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I bought an FN Five-Seven a while ago and it's largely been an amusing range toy. But after hearing much talk about its supposed hunting utility, I took it with me dove hunting this weekend.
Normally I carry a 10mm, .357 or a .45 to shoot pigs and coyotes while bird hunting, but this time I brought my Five-Seven.
I ended up shooting 6 rabbits with it from 5 feet to about 40 meters away and the results with FN's blue-tipped ammo is rather impressive to say the least. They all dropped in their tracks and died very quickly and the round seemed to of exploded inside them. Yet curiously, only one rabbit had serious tissue damage from a leg bone exploding.
All in all the Five-Seven is quite a rabbit slayer. Though the math of using a $1200 pistol, at $0.70 a shot doesn't really add up, its flat-shooting trajectory makes it an excellent small-game and coyote hunting pistol. I plan on brining it for deer season, to shoot coyotes when I don't want to shoot them with a .308 or other large caliber weapon.
Though I think next time I want rabbit stew, I'll just use a suppressed .22LR, as the Five-Seven is very unpleasant without ear plugs.
Normally I carry a 10mm, .357 or a .45 to shoot pigs and coyotes while bird hunting, but this time I brought my Five-Seven.
I ended up shooting 6 rabbits with it from 5 feet to about 40 meters away and the results with FN's blue-tipped ammo is rather impressive to say the least. They all dropped in their tracks and died very quickly and the round seemed to of exploded inside them. Yet curiously, only one rabbit had serious tissue damage from a leg bone exploding.
All in all the Five-Seven is quite a rabbit slayer. Though the math of using a $1200 pistol, at $0.70 a shot doesn't really add up, its flat-shooting trajectory makes it an excellent small-game and coyote hunting pistol. I plan on brining it for deer season, to shoot coyotes when I don't want to shoot them with a .308 or other large caliber weapon.
Though I think next time I want rabbit stew, I'll just use a suppressed .22LR, as the Five-Seven is very unpleasant without ear plugs.