9mm +P+ againts dogs - Not a good idea

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LordofWar

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This may sound weird but I've recently encountered a slight problem at my house - Stray dog infestation.

I didnt really care when I saw them on & off loitering around the lawns and the mango orchard but recently they started growing in number and started causing the following problems (I'm trying to justify my subsequent actions to any animal rights activists that we might have here):

1. Lots of barking, howling and fighting throughout the night.
2. Dog crap through out the lawn.
3. Some of them managed to get in bed with the guard dogs at my house and became really aggressive and my son's now one year old so Im not taking any chances.
4. I was coming home with some important guests and while I was driving towards the house there was a pair in a love lock in the middle of the driveway. Had to honk them away from the road. Was really embarassing.

So today after the #4 incident I was really furious and went out on a little hunting with my Glock 19 & HK USP loaded with +P & +P+ rounds which I thought would be enough for the dogs.

This again might sound weird but none of the dogs that I shot went down on the first shot!

I shot three and they were shot in the chest, neck and shoulders but all that happened was they just ran away screaming. Had to go after them and finish the poor things with a rifle. Then I brought in my HK USP Tactical .45 and even that couldnt get me a clean kill. Being a doglover I really felt bad and left for the servants to do the dirty work and got the mason to work on the cracks in the walls from which they were coming in and going out.

I was going for BIG 4 hunting to Tanzania next month and I had thought of bringing my .45 and a 9mm as side arms which wouldve been a foolish mistake. If the 9mm +P+ or .45 ACP couldnt even keep a dog from running away after getting shot I'm skeptical if it would be able to stop any one of the BIG 4 even if I manage to place followup shots.

I do have a Ruger Redhawk in .44 Mag but I'm kind of not comfortable with revolvers. Got a Desert Eagle .50 AE but again Im not sure if the same could take the extreme conditions in the bush.

Any comments/suggestion?
 
Work on your shot placement, and pick your ammo a little more carefully. A decently placed federal 9mm hydra-shok will stop a wild dog (as will an M-240-B). High pressure rounds are okay, but won't make up for wounding shots. If this is your accepted level of hunting accurcy, I'd either rethink the "big-4" trip, or work allot harder on your shooting between now and the first time you take a poke at a few thousand pounds of bone, muscle, and dynamite. You don't want to come home from Africa with a dead guide on your concience, or worse, looking like a "shaggy tollhouse cookie".
 
I've had similar experiences with feral dogs using the same calibers (detailed write up somewhere around here, not gonna repeat it). What it boiled down to was point blank, behind the ear pointing forward on a pit bull & it wasn't enough. If you're carrying a 9mm or .45acp and you are ATTACKED by a dog, by all means shoot to stop the attack. If you're going out to thin the herd of feral dogs, take a rifle.
 
greensteelforge

Considering I was shooting from a distance of 45-50 yards, the dogs were actually moving, that I was using a pistol and all shots were placed where I wanted them , I think I'm a pretty good shot. Wts an M-240-B?

I didnt go for the head shots because I didnt want a mess all over my lawn.
 
What type of +P and +P+ ammo?

The projectile matters more than the chamber pressure when you are talking about performance on critters.

A regular pressure, high-quality HP would probably be more effective than a +P+ FMJ submachinegun load. An el-cheapo HP of a 20 year+ old design would be inferior to a modern HP. And so on...

Wts an M-240-B?
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A belt-fed medium machine gun. 7.62x51mm.
 
Norinco Chinese 124 gr. +P FMJ and POF SMG FMJ +P+ loads.

I do have Hydrashoks in 115, 124 and 147 grs but I didnt want to waste them on stray dogs

1. They are a rare commodity in our part of the world.
2. If you are lucky enough to find them they sell for about $7-10 USD PER round.

The wounded dogs were finished and Operation Dogcrack was conducted using 7.62x51 (.308 Winchester to be precise) in HK G3 and later by my people using buckshots.
 
The only way to stop any animal Dead Right There is a nervous system hit. Anything else will cause the to run away or lay there until they die. Only a head shot is DRT, 50BMG or 9mm.
 
50BMG, M-240-B belt fed machine guns... for hunting dogs...

Jeez. Some of you guys sadistically/sarcastically extremists. You'd be ******* Talibans of the feral dog world. lol

I wonder what you'd recommend for my BIG 4 hunt? JDAM?
 
Norinco Chinese 124 gr. +P FMJ and POF SMG FMJ +P+ loads.
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The FMJ is probably your problem. Not enough expansion on impact. If you don't want to waste hollow points, I'd say go with the shotgun and buckshot approach.
 
Look a .45 APC was not designed to kill at 45 to 50 yards, it was not designed to kill at very close range about 25 yards or less.
 
"45 APC was not designed to kill at 45 to 50 yards,"
Had a friend shoot a coyote at 65yrds with a golden saber 45 and it dropped in it's tracks. Not only a great shot off hand but great bullet performance.
 
cole k 'I didn't say it could be done, I said that was not what that it was designed to do'
So what was it designed to do? I'm just curious.
 
Well...

This may come as no surprise to you, but an animal does not have the ability to "know it has been shot" and react accordingly. They only know they have been "hurt" and they tend to run until they can no longer do so due to trauma or blood loss. We see this during deer hunting all of the time. I have seen deer with their lungs and heart obliterated with a 7mag run 50-100 yards. Some drop in their tracks, some don't. Unless you shoot an animal (dog, etc.) in the head, there is a good chance that it will take them a while to die.

Theoretically, if a dog were attacking you, you would shoot the dog in the head. A dogs head isn't THAT think so a 9mm or .45 acp should have no problems penetrating the brain. The problem is that a dog is a fast animal, so getting that shot INTO the head may be an issue. With that being said, it might be good to have something that you can get a quick followup shot with. Although my recent incident with a hog has taught me that a hog and a 9mm do not mix, I feel the 9mm would be more than adequate against a charging dog. A chest shot? Maybe not so much...

Todd
 
Hydra-Shoks aren't that expensive or hard to find.

They're not even the best ammo anymore either. You can get 50 rounds of Speer Gold Dots from ammunitiontogo.com for $25. They also had HST's in last week. Both are good stuff.

I have been checking every day for HST's for my 40 with no luck so far.
 
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