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RR;
Thanks again. I can relate to the "turn to dust" thing. Someone once missread my order and sent me a couple hundred rounds of .223 50 gr frangible ammo.
One night when a racoon raided the chicken coop I decided to try the stuff out and whacked a big one right in the shoulder (it was quartering toward me and I could not shoot it further back wihtout gut shooting it and even a coon deserves a clean death).
Big mistake! The critter dissapeard out of sight behind my building making all sorts of racket. Being in my house (shooting from the laundry room) I had to make it to the door and then travel outside, not knowing the condition of the coon. When I got there it had finally expired and there was a baseball sized hole where I had hit it but it was only an inch deep. Perhaps there were some fragments of the copper jacket that cut an artery or something to kill the thing but the wound did not look all that lethal. It certainly wasn't a quick death.
I will never shoot another critter bigger than a mouse with that load!
Best regards,
Riposte
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