Skill of shooting
 

Do you guys think it takes more skill to kill a animal with a full metal jacket rather than with a expanding/ballistic tip?

He thinks to kill an animal humanely with a full metal jacket (The nerve center of the brain) takes more skill than with using a ballistic or expanding bullet.

So do you think it takes more skill to do this?

We have been arguing for the last half hour. We need to clear the air before I shoot him with a FMJ so he dies a slow, painful death. :argue2:

Nope, accuracy period equates to skill , not what you hit an animal with .
Purposely aiming for a head shot with a FMJ is not legal anyway on big game, so the point is moot, isn't it?
I don't know any World class hunters and World Class competitive shooters who promote head shots- and I have know more than a few in my day.
My advice is to move on, because he obviously thinks he is right, but I'm not sure why he thinks this.
Cat

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One thing is for sure,shooting an animal with a FMJ is a great way to loose your hunting privileges.

It might take more skill, but it's a higher-risk shot and, as Cat pointed out, FMJ bullets are illegal for hunting. Expanding bullets create a larger wound tract = more bleeding = faster/more humane death. There's really no argument to be had.

What a retarded question !! I can't believe I wasted my time reading it and more replying to it.

That depends on what you're shooting. Some people use FMJ on varmints/coyotes/fur bearers.

Pretty ridiculous argument. FMJ are illegal for hunting and head shots on big game are an incredibly unethical way to hunt. Saw a big doe a couple seasons back with her lower jaw hanging off because some goof tried to shoot her in the head instead of the boiler room.

Ammunition does not equal skill so I'm not sure how that even plays into the discussion.

Save the headshots for a grouse.

Hope the OP doesn't mind the derail but why are head shots so frowned upon here?
I know guys back in Australia that shoot 100-300 roos a night and every one has to be a headshot to be allowed in the chiller. A roos head is a lot smaller than a deers head.
I'm not saying I support head shots on deer, I'm just curious as to why.

Head shots are frowned upon by many even though they are legal because of the low percentage shot the offer as opposed to a lung shot .
Cat

That's why.

I know, I had to post this just to try and get it through his thick skull. He wanted to use them on yodies. I told him that was wrong, and ethically terrible. And it does not take more skill. This is coming from a guy who dry-fired my bow last night... after I told him not too.

This is why I don't even shoot grouse with a .22, in fear of shooting off his beak and him starving to death. and 9/10 of my grouse are BB free. Well #4 free I guess haha.

Every moose that I have shot within 100 yards I have shot in the neck. Deer I will shoot in the neck within 50 yards. Never in the head. Never have I missed or made an un-ethical shot doing this.

Any farther and I aim for the boiler room.

Those are my limits for neck shots. I am comfortable with doing this.

Another big concern about using FmJ'sfor hunting 'yotes is the ricochet factor!!
Personally I don't know any serious varmint hunters who try for head shots only
I DO know a few who CONSIDER themselves experts however that do both on varmints and deer - I don 't hunt with them however :thinking-006:
Cat

That is correct,I thought we were talking about big game.My bad.:)

[QUOTE=*BigSexyHunter*;2577442]I know, I had to post this just to try and get it through his thick skull. He wanted to use them on yodies. I told him that was wrong, and ethically terrible. And it does not take more skill. This is coming from a guy who dry-fired my bow last night... after I told him not too.

Please get him to a vet and neutered as quickly as possible

16 posts in, so I hope this is not a derail. I never knew it was illegal to hunt big game with a FMJ (I don't use fmj's anyway), but does that also apply to coyotes? I was thinking of fmj's with my .223 for coyote hunting. Figure there would be less fur damage.

WHy would you go for a neck shot? There's room for hitting nothing but meat in the neck, causing a lost animal and/ or wasted meat.
I've never lost an animal parting the ribs, and meat loss is zero.

Have you ever bothered to read the regulations?
You don't have to read very far to find:

Are coyote big game? as waterninja was asking about using fmj's on coyote.

to the OP, simply tell him it requires the same amount of skill to make a headshot regardless of the ammunition used.

In his last post, he plainly stated:

In my opinion, if I miss the neck bones/spine, I will still hit the juggler or other major veins, (My thoughts) Where if I make a bad head shot and just shoot off the bottom jaw it may never be recovered.

It was how I was taught.

A game animal can go a long ways if you don't sever the spine or the jugular, and with a neck shot, it's quite possible to hit flesh, but not sever either.

Well that makes two of us LOL

Not sure who he is that part was left out :confused:


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skill of shooting.
 

Anybody who hunts big game with FMJ bullets should have his head examined!

Saw a buffalo get shot through the neck 2 years back. The thing humped up and went back into the herd. Nobody found him again...

Yes elk i can read. Since I have never hunted big game with fmj's, reading that reg about non expanding bullets never really clicked. For all I know fmj's may not be the only non expanding bullets on the market.
Also I don't agree with you about coyotes being "big game". I think they are predators or even fur bearers and fall under different regs.
Would still like to know if you can shoot them with either non-expanding bullets or fmj's to prevent fur damage.

Here to tell you....neck shots don't always work.

Your though process is not 100% correct...

I shot a deer in the neck from 100 yards away and it dropped immediately, I walked up to it and dragged it 10 yards....realized I left my knife where I shot it from, walked back to get my knife in the way back the deer jumped up and ran. No I never recovered that deer...you know why? It never died I saw it two weeks later after the season was over.

IF YOU HAVE A CLEAR CHEST SHOT, always take it over a head or neck shot....trust me.

LC

You say never? I thought like you once....

"Never have I missed or made an un-ethical shot doing this.

Any farther and I aim for the boiler room."

Those are my limits for neck shots. I am comfortable with doing this."

Playing percentages....a proper betting man would not take a head/neck shot....NEVER is a long time until it is no longer NEVER....

LC