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Posted: 11/10/2013 8:53:12 AM EDT
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Not me but I was looking up some info on a 640T I bought back in the late 70s
"The .22 Mag is very effective out to fairly long range on small animals, provided you know your elevations, and have a good scope that can track well. With 40-grainer soft points, it is effective on 100-200lb soft-skinned animals to 100 or 150 with well-placed shots...maybe further." http://www.sniperforums.com/forum/rimfire/38140-mossberg-chuckster-640-a.html |
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If you take the position of many (most?) bowhunters, a wound that leads to the animal bleeding out and dying is defined as "effective". In that context, even a decent .22LR will mushroom to .30 - .35 cal. at reasonable distances, and penetrate to 6 - 12". A .30 cal. hole will allow enough blood to drain out to kill an animal within an hour or so.
So, yes, you can consider the .22 Mag an effective killer out to those distances. It might not be an instant take-down like we'd like to see, but by comparison neither will that arrow. Before you bowhunters jump on me, I'm basing that on what I'm told by hunter friends and on the many, many hunting shows on TV, where bowhunting seems to be the way everyone is going. I don't think I've seen one where the animal drops immediately - rather, it's a matter of following a bloodtrail and finally finding the quarry bled out hours later and 300 yards away. So, unless you're hunting relatively small game, and are a good shot, you'd probably be better off using a cartridge better suited to the task. |
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