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Posted: 9/24/2005 7:02:09 PM EDT
[#1]
12 ga. loaded with 6 shot, point blank on a field rat.
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Posted: 9/24/2005 7:02:16 PM EDT
[#2]
Nope. The closest I've come is wasting a metal bucket with a .45-70 from ten feet away.
For the record, the bucket was utterly annihilated. My best friend's dad once shot a pheasant with a .30-06. It disintegrated and flying pheasant debris stunned another pheasant, knocking it from the sky. He walked over and wrung its neck before it recovered. The largest piece of the one he shot was the foot. |
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Posted: 9/24/2005 7:03:18 PM EDT
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I have killed many a crow with a 45 grain JHP from my AR. Looks like a hand grenade detonating in a feather pillow. I once put a wounded possum out of its misery with a 150 grain ballistic tip from a .308.
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Posted: 9/24/2005 7:03:19 PM EDT
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I once blasted an armadillo with 7x57 FN mauser from about 20ft away.......his shell did not save him
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Posted: 9/24/2005 7:03:28 PM EDT
[#5]
Headshot a rabbit at 30 yards with a .303 brit. Boy was I surprised.
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Posted: 9/24/2005 7:04:13 PM EDT
[#6]
Squirrel, 12 GA slug. Squirrel was for dinner after a frustrating shotgun-only deer hunt.
Squirrel, broadhead. Squirrel was for dinner. Edit, and this relates... Did anyone see the GATECH VATECH game? (BTW: I am a huge fan of not GATECH.) |
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Posted: 9/24/2005 7:04:51 PM EDT
[#7]
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Posted: 9/24/2005 7:06:49 PM EDT
[#8]
When I was around 12 years old I shot a dove with a .410 slug.
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Posted: 9/24/2005 7:06:59 PM EDT
[#9]
Does toad hunting with a 12ga qualify?
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Posted: 9/24/2005 7:07:10 PM EDT
[#10]
Shot a Partridge at about 25 yards with my lever action 30-30. Made a nice big explosion of feathers.
I was able to find the tail and the head. Everything in between had turned into a nice red mist 
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Posted: 9/24/2005 7:07:25 PM EDT
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You forgot a cartoon of five gallons of kerosine. Dynamite doesn't produce that fireball all by its lonesome! |
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Posted: 9/24/2005 7:08:43 PM EDT
[#12]
Bullfrog with a 44 magnum. Was about 3 feet from it. Got sprayed with little bits of frog, mud and water.
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Posted: 9/24/2005 7:09:21 PM EDT
[#13]
Squirrels with a 12 gauge loaded with 7.5 shot. Nuthin left but a red mist. . .
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Posted: 9/24/2005 7:10:18 PM EDT
[#14]
Ever wonder what a .300 Win Mag will do to a chipmunk at 20 yards? Quite the mess......
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Posted: 9/24/2005 7:10:32 PM EDT
[#15]
A Squirrel.
Combined it was an AR-180B, an AR-15, and a MAC-10. Small creatures should avoid the rifle range. |
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Posted: 9/24/2005 7:10:35 PM EDT
[#16]
Sparrow at 10 yards with a M60 Machinegun. Bird flew in front of MG as bullets were going down range. Bird was a puff of feathers. This was back in the summer 1983 or 1984. Doing Machinegun quals. How's that? |
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Posted: 9/24/2005 7:11:15 PM EDT
[#17]
Shot a squirrel with #4 buck with my 12 gauge Winnie Defender.
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Posted: 9/24/2005 7:11:29 PM EDT
[#18]
Yep, my first wife.
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Posted: 9/24/2005 7:13:52 PM EDT
[#19]
Turtle with a .45 FMJ. Looked like a submarine getting hit by a depth charge.
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Posted: 9/24/2005 7:14:26 PM EDT
[#20]
My grandfather shot a duck, in the head, on the water, at 250(yes, I checked) yards. Very lucky shot. He used my .300win mag. There was a wing, half of a head, and some skin left after I paddled out there.
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Posted: 9/24/2005 7:14:48 PM EDT
[#21]
120 lb ferel hog with a .416 Rigby 400gn softpoint at 30 yards.
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Posted: 9/24/2005 7:15:38 PM EDT
[#22]
GOOD GOD MAN!!! That wins the prize! |
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Posted: 9/24/2005 7:16:08 PM EDT
[#23]
4.2" mortar on a deer at Fort Drum... direct lay at about 1500 meters with an HE round set to superquick, it disappeared.
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Posted: 9/24/2005 7:19:22 PM EDT
[#24]
tree rat with an AR varmint round
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Posted: 9/24/2005 7:19:52 PM EDT
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I almost hit a deer with an M2HB .50BMG in Germany...........course they started screaming CEASE FUCKING FIRE...........and I never even noticed the deer - it was dark and I was in my zone........they say .50BMG rounds were dancing around the deer though
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Posted: 9/24/2005 7:22:28 PM EDT
[#26]
I shot a small rabbit with my .460 weatherby magnum.
Also shot a rattlesnake with handloaded shotshells in my freedom arms .454. Devastating (was using #12 shot) |
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Posted: 9/24/2005 7:23:04 PM EDT
[#27]
45acp on a little mouse in my garage, nothing left but the tail and a few drops of blood.
my ears hurt the worst though 
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Posted: 9/24/2005 7:28:46 PM EDT
[#28]
The closest I can get is a 53 grn Vmax from a .243 into a crow at 200 yds.
Turned him around 180 degrees and the exit wound was bigger than my fist and the backside wing was blown off. But that's what we expect a varmint round to do
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Posted: 9/24/2005 7:31:51 PM EDT
[#29]
Probably doesn't qualify as grossly exorbitant but starlings with a 22-250 is damned dramatic anyway! 
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Posted: 9/24/2005 7:32:03 PM EDT
[#30]
My wife used the 870 to dispatch a spider on the back deck --3.5in magnum buckshot round at approx 4 feet .
My wife really REALLY hates spiders. |
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Posted: 9/24/2005 7:34:07 PM EDT
[#31]
Squirrel with a 30-30. Nice little mist.
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Posted: 9/24/2005 7:36:36 PM EDT
[#32]
Yes, after a fashion.
17-year Cicada + 8-pound logsplitting maul = big chunk taken out of my driveway. |
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Posted: 9/24/2005 7:36:46 PM EDT
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I think that if we divide the amount of kinetic energy delivered to the target by the live weight of the target, then your .375/bird combo wins hands down. While shooting my M1, a monarch butterfly flew about two feet infront of the muzzle and about 2 inches below my line of sight. At the shot, all I saw was 'stuff' flying down range, and I thought I had burst the barrel. My buddy Art was sitting on the bench right next to the one I was shooting from and he just ERUPTED into a fit of laughter at the shot. He saw the whole event unfolding and knew it was a butterfly. I thought my rifle had just been FUBARed, and became very pissed because I thought he was howling at the destruction of my VERY expensive ( to a Corporal) rifle, but Art was laughing so hard that he couldn't explain what happend, and MY reaction caused him to laugh even harder!!! We were the only ones at this range, and it was the 8th round, so the weapon was clear. Art walked down range and picked up the now wingless thorax of the butterfly and handed it to me. Then we both sat there laughing so hard we couldn't speak for the next several minnutes. |
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Posted: 9/24/2005 7:42:59 PM EDT
[#34]
As kids, we use to chase down jack rabbits in the hay field and blast 'em with 180 gr. 30-06. Sore shoulders but not much left of the rabbit.
Ah....to be a kid again.
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Posted: 9/24/2005 7:44:18 PM EDT
[#35]
44 mag on bunny, no need to gut.
GM |
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Posted: 9/24/2005 7:46:58 PM EDT
[#36]
I have a Stoeger Coach Gun. I fired both barrels, #7 shot, 2 3/4". loads, at a bee
 buzzing around a wildflower. All I can say is I didn't see the bee anymore.eta: There wasn't much left of the flower, either. |
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Posted: 9/24/2005 7:49:14 PM EDT
[#37]
120 lb whitetail, 15 yards, 7mm rem mag, 3x scope. All i saw through the scope was brown fur up close.
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Posted: 9/24/2005 7:50:34 PM EDT
[#38]
One afternoon, both a snake and a mouse with a 17HRM. It does not soud like overkill but the mouse was just "pink mist and small parts" The snake became a "two piece snake" about and inch of head separarted from the rest. Both were about sixty feet away. The most over kill was a ground Squirrel with a 270 Win, 130 Nosler ST @3200fps about 80 yds.
I have a sealed 8oz bottle of Tannerite sitting on a hay bale about 150yds out in the field behind my house. The crows feeding usually have a scout up on that hay bale. When the time comes he is going to get "Tannerited" with my heavy barrelled AR-15 and it's 6X24 Burris. I will take pics and Post. Would that be Grossly Exorbitant? 
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Posted: 9/24/2005 7:52:37 PM EDT
[#39]
I did that same thing once, except it wasa 7mm Mauser and it was 15 FEET. Big exit hole and a lot of blood. The 175gr 7mm bullet entered the front of its chest and traveled through the animal lengthwise. |
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Posted: 9/24/2005 8:06:18 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/24/2005 8:15:23 PM EDT
[#41]
A 155 Howitzer and a dog. "And alot of splening lucy".
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Posted: 9/24/2005 8:15:46 PM EDT
[#42]
Center mass hit on a rabbit with a 30-30.
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Posted: 9/24/2005 8:20:20 PM EDT
[#43]
when i used to reload i took some 170 grain flat point bullets ( for a 30/30), melted out the lead and filled them with number 8 bird shot held in place with wax. the weighed in at about 80 grains, and would crono at 3400 fps with a full load. i hit a rabbit with one found its heads and one leg
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Posted: 9/24/2005 8:25:15 PM EDT
[#44]
i killed a teal with a ten guage from like 10 feet away when he came into the goose deeks. i found a leg and guts.
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Posted: 9/24/2005 8:35:23 PM EDT
[#45]
male white tail deer 120lbs stopped instantly and thrown for the front end of a dodge caravan at 75mph filled with gear and 6 people.
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Posted: 9/24/2005 8:38:40 PM EDT
[#46]
I used my AR to shoot a magpie once and I used my 340 weatherby to kill a coyote. Both were a bit of an over kill.
Patty |
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Posted: 9/24/2005 8:41:03 PM EDT
[#47]
308 on groundhogs works wonders.
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Posted: 9/24/2005 8:47:03 PM EDT
[#48]
.300 WinMag and .300WSM on Praire dogs ........nothing left but a crater
M2 .50 BMG on Sharks when I was in the Navy |
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Posted: 9/24/2005 8:48:09 PM EDT
[#49]
Groundhogs are my number one enemy on my property. Latest one i popped was with a Smith&Wesson 500 magnum. McM |
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Posted: 9/24/2005 8:48:20 PM EDT
[#50]
In May of 2004 I was with a group of 30 people camping and shooting in the Nevada desert just South of the Black Rock Desert. Around dusk we noticed a swarm(?) of Mormon Crickets marching on our campsite. These things are flightless and get to be about 2" long.
www.sdvc.uwyo.edu/grasshopper/ansiadul.htm  A group of us went out and started blasting them with everything we had: 12 gauages, M1A's SKS's, AK's and AR's. We managed to divert their march away from our camp. |
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