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I shot one with a fast moving 270 grain soft out of a 375 H&H through the ribs and it left a neat little hole. But hit a steinbuck too far back in a full little rumen and blew a huge hole with the same 375.
A PH who does a lot of small critter hunts told me to bring slow moving 220 grain softs for a 30-06... But I wanted faster moving 180 grainers for larger PG and then I found some round nose solids that were moving just as fast and regulated very close so took them.... Yea they tended to tumble and make some pretty big holes. Got lucky on a klipspringer and hit between the ribs and neat little hole. But cut a couple vervet monkeys in half. I had previously tried my 6.5 creedmoor and it vaporized about half the monkey. Explained to me as hydro-static shock effect.
Finally shot a nice male monkey with a 12 gauge and 4 shot. Worked very well... Same effect on porcupine, the round nose solid split the guts open, shotgun at about 40 yards worked well... Up close it busted up quills.
A PH who does a lot of small critter hunts told me to bring slow moving 220 grain softs for a 30-06... But I wanted faster moving 180 grainers for larger PG and then I found some round nose solids that were moving just as fast and regulated very close so took them.... Yea they tended to tumble and make some pretty big holes. Got lucky on a klipspringer and hit between the ribs and neat little hole. But cut a couple vervet monkeys in half. I had previously tried my 6.5 creedmoor and it vaporized about half the monkey. Explained to me as hydro-static shock effect.
Finally shot a nice male monkey with a 12 gauge and 4 shot. Worked very well... Same effect on porcupine, the round nose solid split the guts open, shotgun at about 40 yards worked well... Up close it busted up quills.
