This thread has come full circle, from defensive use of the service pistol, to finishing road injured deer, now to hunting deer — I care too much about deer to hunt them with a 9mm pistol. Wounded animals are different, but my hunting of deer and elk is with a rifle and cartridge combination capable of accurately placing a shot that has the performance to be able to hit both lungs, the heart and break the opposite shoulder, like I did on an elk this fall.
Likes pretty much everything in every caliber.
I only brought up injured deer because they
1) Are more plentiful than OIS
2) Are similar in size to a human
3) There’s rarely a legal aspect to blasting an injured Bambi and telling the tale.
For what it’s worth I’ve arrested guys who easily qualified as “big game”, when you have to link two pairs of cuffs that’s a big dude.
The original post in this thread was concerning an Underwood 10mm loading which appeared to overdrive the 180gr GD nearly to the point of fragmentation in a block of media. Animals (including people) are not homogeneous and I’d think the load in question would work on medium to Mongo size threats as long as the shooter can shoot it accurately.
My rule is, when you have a wounded animal, there are no rules except to humanely finish the animal. Finishing a vehicle struck deer definitely falls into that category, and my comment was about hunting deer with a service pistol. My perspective is also colored by being out west, where shots on deer are commonly 200-300 yards in the mountains.
Likes pretty much everything in every caliber.