Not shooting an Asseagai, Giz, standing there and stabbing it as it walked by(G)...
BTW, I know a primitivist that took a 400lb wild boar with a flint tipped atlatl dart, no backup gun, no backup. He must have a set of big ones....
The grapevine says that DNR officers busted up a ring of poachers recently in Md. One item confiscated was some sort of arrow shooting device run on compressed air. Supposed to send the arrows out at nearly 500 FPS. Wanna calculate the ME and KE on THAT one,with say, a 400 gr arrow?
BTW, due to other obligations, I had to pass on a Dorchester County Sika deer hunt with buckshot. That's the only county in Md where buck is allowed, due to the thickness of the local swamps and jungles. So, buck size 1 and larger are authorized. I woulda used 00 on those elusive but tasty exotics.If I get another chance this year, unlikely, I'll report on the 00.
Huntsman,if there's an ineffective 12 ga slug for deer sized game, I certainly haven't run across it. All of them will work fine, the question is more as to whether which one is most accurate in a given shotgun. Only testing will reveal that. I've always had good results with any of the Brennekes, and I'm delighted to be able to lay in a supply w/o using up the kids' college money.Brennekes have always performed well for me.
But, I'm persnickety. I suggest you buy a couple 5 packs of each, carefully bench test and then buyamessa the one that groups best. Use recoil protection and let the bbl cool off between shots for best results.
Crow slayer, a coyote at 80 yards with a slug? Sounds like you know your weapon.
Congrats to your Dad,he did his part well. Quick, humane kills, short blood trail.
A coupla minor things...
Up until last year, I had been coasting on a dwindling supply of my old duty slugs, the Winchester 1 oz Forster type. Incredible effectiveness on deer. A herd control yearling doe shot high shoulder at 35 yards had an entry wound even bigger than with the KO slugs, my hunting buddy witnessed this and thought I was using some LE only explosive projectile. Blood and tissue seemed to explode from her side,and she didn't make 40 yards.I stuck all four fingers into the entry wound.
Another meat doe taken was hit at 90 degrees broadside one rib back from the shoulder,she dressed in the 120s, and both entrance and exit wounds were three finger size. Short blood trail there too.
Being as I married a city girl, we found out a long time ago that she likes the meat better if it shows up in nice neat little packages,so I take my deer to a butcher first. I dropped off this doe yesterday and picked up the two deer I had left the previous week,and the butcher showed me two Brenneke slugs he dug out of somebody else's deer. Neither slug showed major expansion, even tho the shells were the 3" version. Neither exited the deer, both were lengthwise or raking shots.
On looking at my doe, the butcher remarked that he saw few entrance wounds as big as this one,and wanted to know what kind of slug would do that for him and his Model 37. We then "wasted" some time discussing the merits of rifled bbls and sabots. He's not enthused about sabots, says that the guys report longer blood trails like I've mentioned here myself.
This is a guy who processes 60-100 deer per year, hunts his family farm since infancy,and sees more deer live and dead, than most of us. He liked the slug.
He also noted that my slug cut/broke three ribs on the way out,indicating it was moving at a different angle at that point.Maybe it did deflect, but I sure don't care...