Nutczak
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They way I understood "Knockdown Ability" is that action felt by the target, can be no greater than the recoil felt by the shooter.
I have yet to see recoil from any handgun knock someone off their feet.
Deer shooting, I use a 22-250 loaded with a Barnes solid copper hollow-point, a tiny little 52 grain bullet that zips along at, or near 4,000 FPS. I commonly see deer drop in their tracks with that round when I take a neckshot. andshots into the chest cavitycommonly result in seeing a large high jump with a nose dive into the groundand they do not get up.
The only thing I can figure why my neckshots drop them so quickis that I am creating a major stroke in the deers brain from the increased blood-pressure coming from the carotid and jugular being compressed by the pressure wave/energy transferof the hit.
A few friends of mine use minster caliber rounds for deer, and think that if you do not have a fist-sized exit wound in the deer, he will run for miles. I have proven them wrong on numerous occasions, I just prefer fast flat-trajectory rifles with low recoil. There is no reason to shoot a .300 Win-Mag at a deer IMO.
They way I understood "Knockdown Ability" is that action felt by the target, can be no greater than the recoil felt by the shooter.
I have yet to see recoil from any handgun knock someone off their feet.
Deer shooting, I use a 22-250 loaded with a Barnes solid copper hollow-point, a tiny little 52 grain bullet that zips along at, or near 4,000 FPS. I commonly see deer drop in their tracks with that round when I take a neckshot. andshots into the chest cavitycommonly result in seeing a large high jump with a nose dive into the groundand they do not get up.
The only thing I can figure why my neckshots drop them so quickis that I am creating a major stroke in the deers brain from the increased blood-pressure coming from the carotid and jugular being compressed by the pressure wave/energy transferof the hit.
A few friends of mine use minster caliber rounds for deer, and think that if you do not have a fist-sized exit wound in the deer, he will run for miles. I have proven them wrong on numerous occasions, I just prefer fast flat-trajectory rifles with low recoil. There is no reason to shoot a .300 Win-Mag at a deer IMO.