No Kill Like Over Kill.

[douginont]

Have you ever taken a critter with a tad too much punch?
A fox grabbed a chicken and took off down the trail behind my place. I grabbed my 7 mm RM and went after it. It was sitting 40 yds away waiting for the chicken to die when I took out it's chest. I've since dialed my varmint gun back a bit.

 

[hawk-i]

I shot a cottontail with a 416 ruger...does that count?

 

[double gun]

...It was sitting 40 yds away waiting for the chicken to die when I took out it's chest.

Did the chicken make it?

 

[PatchRat]

Once shot a squirrel with a 7mag.

 

[horseman2]

I have shot grouse, gophers, groundhogs, coyotes, black bear, moose, elk and deer with my 338 Win Mag.

I did not know there were limits on what could be called a varmint gun other than it was whatever you were carrying at the time.

Regardless of what I am hunting whenever I see a coyote it suddenly becomes a coyote hunt!

A coyote sitting there looking at the hole in the barrel ended up with his teeth on the backside of his head.

 

[threecentsolution]

Way back when 303's were $19 at the hardware store I plinked a few squirrels and muskrats with one.

 

[franktank]

I used my 338 Lapua mag a complete season on groundhogs. Still have bloody pictures.

 

[9.3mauser]

Shot a porcupine that the dog had just gotten into with a .270, and a coyote with a 9.3mm.

 

[Juster]

Pretty sure I killed worms with 7.62x51.

 

[douginont]

Did the chicken make it?

No, the fox is probably still chasing it thru the heavens.

 

[yomomma]

I shot a rabbit once a point blank, it surprised me and i instinctively shot from the hips. I literally rolled the back half of the fur over the front half. My friend found the heart hanging on a bush.

Then there was the time i tried to do a headshot on a rabbit with a 30-30 at 20 feet, no one told the rabbit it should stay still. I learned that day that half a rabbit cant run.

 

[BrotherRockeye]

I don't know about overkill...but a Gamebore 73mm .410 shotshell at 2' will paint the inside of your wood shed in raccoon...

 

[chrisco]

Took a bunny with 3 shots from a 12 gauge semi.
Not sure what I was thinking. I just emptied the gun.
Needless to say there wasn’t much left.

Shoot straight - chrisco

 

[ChewyChewbacca]

In my younger days I shot a rabbit with my .303 180gr soft point. Let’s put this way. The ravens could sit in the willows to eat it.

 

[keith mokry]

Shot many chickens with a 4570...... mostly with 4 10 shell though

 

[Magellann]

I've shot rabbits and a couple of grouse with a 308 in the past. A head shot on the grouse usually pulls out the guts at the same time.

 

[Ardent]

Don’t think there are many people here who actually hunt frequently who haven’t taken the head off a grouse with a rifle.

One wolf I shot was with a .375 H&H, was what I was carrying is all.

 

[King0265]

Grenade launcher on a mouse

 

[douginont]

There was a pilot in Cold Lake who could chime in with a 20mm on a CF 18, took out a moose or a deer. Video got him charged.

 

[Donny Fenn1]