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General Discussion To Gateway To Airguns => Hunting Gate => : April 30, 2008, 07:11:52 AM
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shouldn't I have an exit wound on a squirrel at 100 ft with a whisper? am I losing power or did I just lodge it in someplace special (high body shot)?
I was using crosman premier hollow points.
on a side note, I need to start measuring the length of the tree rats around here. when I see someone else's pics on this site mine always dwarf them. the grays around here are huge.
-Mark
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If you skin the nutter you should easily be able to see where the pellet ended up. You won't always get an exit wound, even at close range,,, it all depends on what the pellet hits on the way in......
Jeff
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Hey Mark, Like Jeff said if you skin it and I'll add if you cook it and eat it , you'll appreciate the hunting experience more plus as a bonus you get to look for and recover your pellet. Post mortem exam will tell you a lot about your pellets performance plus it makes a nice souvenier. Lots of waterfowlers keep bands when they get them. Recover and keep the pellets out of the squirrels you kill. Same concept.
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I was thinking of doing that recently, just out of curiousity. I am just so used to seeing an exit wound I thought something was wrong.
-Mark
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Yup it got hung up on some bone or heavy meat and is waiting inside. Ed