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cooch
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Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???
30/04/16 08:17 PM

The argument that any calibre will do if you hit it in the right spot, relies on the unreasonable assumption that all shots are either "good" or a complete miss.

In truth, there are probably as many shots that are slightly off-centre as any other category.
Taylor's "knock out formula" was based on his observations of this phenomenon. Both that very near misses produced sub-optimal results - such as the elephant getting up and killing you after having appeared to have been dead - and that using a more adequate calibre put the odds more in the hunter's favour.

Bell himself recorded cutting the tail off a "dead" ele to mark his ownership of the animal, only to find, on his return, that it had recovered from its "fatal" head-wound and decamped.

Same goes for many wounds that are fatal-but-not-yet. Whether it is the wound that does not leave an adequate blood trail for tracking in the late evening, or the same slow bleeding that permits the animal to either make cover or make it to the hunter for a little tit-for-tat before expiring.

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"The only logical response to an animal that lives obsessed with avoiding capture is to chase it." - Jose Ortega y Gassett

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What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	Ripp	21/05/14 06:28 AM
Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	Don	21/05/14 08:52 AM
Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	Igorrock	21/05/14 11:37 AM
Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	Deutsche_Vortrekker	22/05/14 12:25 AM
Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	DarylS	22/05/14 01:15 AM
Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	Ripp	22/05/14 11:45 PM
Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	Yochanan	25/05/14 04:57 AM
Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	awanderingbear	25/05/14 03:28 PM
Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	awanderingbear	25/05/14 03:43 PM
Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	DarylS	26/05/14 01:25 AM
Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	mckinney	26/05/14 01:35 AM
Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	gmsemel	28/07/14 12:20 AM
Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	Igorrock	22/05/14 01:06 AM
Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	Deutsche_Vortrekker	22/05/14 01:31 AM
Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	DarylS	22/05/14 01:55 AM
Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	headoftheholler	22/05/14 02:14 AM
Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	Dumprat	22/05/14 10:50 AM
Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	NitroX	22/05/14 11:31 AM
Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	Deutsche_Vortrekker	22/05/14 01:17 PM
Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	NitroX	30/01/16 04:40 PM
Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	albertan	18/04/17 07:36 PM
Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	NitroX	18/04/17 08:55 PM
Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	Claydog	18/04/17 10:39 PM
Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	DarylS	19/04/17 01:08 AM
Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	Ripp	19/04/17 11:12 PM
Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	DarylS	20/04/17 02:12 AM
Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	Wanabebwana	14/05/16 01:59 PM
Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	Birdhunter50	01/05/16 10:08 PM
Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	cooch	04/04/16 12:20 PM
Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	CarlsenHighway	29/04/16 05:14 PM
Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	cooch	30/04/16 08:01 PM
Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	cooch	30/04/16 08:17 PM
Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	NitroX	30/04/16 01:44 AM
Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	NitroX	30/04/16 01:39 AM
Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	cooch	30/04/16 09:47 PM
Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	NitroX	08/03/17 09:11 PM
Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	Rockdoc	01/05/16 09:59 AM
Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	Waidmannsheil	01/05/16 11:56 AM
Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	DarylS	30/04/16 01:59 AM
Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	Sville	22/05/14 09:20 PM
Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	Ripp	22/05/14 11:39 PM
Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	NitroX	22/05/14 11:32 AM
Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	NitroX	22/05/14 11:37 AM
Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	Ripp	21/05/14 10:45 PM
Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	gryphon	31/01/16 06:08 AM
Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	sharps4590	01/04/16 10:25 PM
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Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	Homer	02/04/16 02:25 PM
Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	NitroX	03/04/16 10:26 PM
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Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	gryphon	02/04/16 06:46 PM
Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	lancaster	03/04/16 03:12 AM
Re: What is the perfect hunting cartridge???	Rule303	03/04/16 09:18 PM

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