Cartidges that have wounded the most game.

[hogpatrol]

22 LR

If you take your harvest to a butcher ask him how many .22 rimfire bullets he's found in big game. If you don't, might not be a good idea to chomp down hard on that steak. ;D

 

[rvn1968]

I wounded or killed a nice buck with my Ruger 44 Blackhawk.He was moving slowly through the woods towards me and I had the wind in my face so I waited.He stopped to look and sniff about 25 yards from me,perfect shot.I know I nailed him,so I waited to follow so I wouldn't be chasing him.I knew he would lie down within 75-100 yards.He was heading towards a swamp,but I thought he would be down by the edge;then the skies opened up with a god-awful thunderstorm and I could never find a trail.Worst hunt of my life.

 

[Wjesswheel]

Calibers and cartridges don't wound anything. Poor shooters, bad decisions and incompetent trigger-pullers do.
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Our shotgun season is opening up soon soon here in indiana. I always make it a point to hit the range a weekend or 2 before seasons opens up and watch all the guys shooting their slug guns at the range. Seems to most of them shooting good is edging a paper plate at 50 yds and it's is good enough to go hunting deer. Iam an amateur but all you have to do is watch them most of them just can't handle a 12 gauge slug their scared of it. It's quite comical watching them. Seen some them barely hit 2ft by 2ft poster boards at 50 yds. I have a savage 12 gauge bolt action slug gun that is a tac driver for a slug gun, very very brutal to shoot you can't hardly not to have a little flinch even when you are trying to control it.Haven't hunted with for 5 yrs or so tried to trade it but know one wanted it.

Switched over to a mossberg 500 20 gauge when I bought a youth model for my 10 yr old to shoot. Made my 10 yr old put 80 rds thru it till he could hit a paper plate comsistently in the center at 50 yds. His first deer at 10 was at 19 yds he sixteen now thinks he's shot 18 or 19 Deere with none of them running very far. I Shot a doe last year with my 20 gauge with light field slugs at 139 yd pretty much right on target . I agree with you it's not the caliber it is the bozos pulling the trigger.

With the blue tongue are deer numbers seem to have thinned quite about. I am hoping the harder hunting might get some of them out of the woods. My son and I were hunting with my brother in law 5 yrs ago and we are walking out of the woods on the last day and my brother in laws 17 yr old kid is telling my 10 year old he has a 200 yd h&r handi rifle bull barrel slug gun and my 10 yr old tells him there is no such thing as a 200 yd slug gun, and they argue a ibit back and forth so my 10 yr old just challenges him to a shooting match. So we march off a hundred yards put up a 8 x 10 sheet of paper up and they shoot prone and my son puts 4 of 5 on paper at 100yd. And my brother in laws kid doesn't hit it in 5 or have anything close. To much pride might be a bad thing but I will admit I was pretty proud of my kid that day,not for shooting but for the fact he new what his round was capable of at 10 yrs oldand some guys just never get it.