Smallest with biggest....

Not exactly a big game animal....but I once hit a mouse with a 1oz slug....I think. We were out popping off a few rounds in the backyard one day, shooting some clays with #7.5, milk jugs with slugs, etc. I had been shooting clays, but had reloaded with slugs to shoot at stationary target....A mouse ran across the ground in front of me. Thinking I still had target load in, I shot at it.

I cannot say with certainty that I hit it, but it disappeared and there was a 1" hole in the ground where it had been. I may have missed, but I like to think that I pushed it into the ground with the slug. Kind of a death and burial all in one...
 
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I shot a Rabbit with my .375win , its first kill in my hands.... there was a .375 hole in an .375 hole on the other side... no damage.. but dead
 
I shot both impala and warthog with a .375, and had the opportunity on rug a baboon, but passed. The smallest qame I've harvested with the biggest rifle is complicated. I've taken small game with both my .416 Rigby and the .458, but while the frontal area of the heavier .458 slug is greater, its case capacity is minute compared to the Rigby, so which should be considered bigger? But I know somebody has gone bunny hunting with their .460 Weatherby or .510 Wells.
 
I have shot a white tail buck with a 450gr tsx from a 460 weatherby. And if all works well i will try the same with the 510 Wells. Or i might just use the 7-30 Waters. No fun in that though
 
308Win 180 gr soft point on Lynx @ like 10 yards... All I had with me at the time when he was attacking my chickens.
He is at the taxidermists and I should have him back mid summer 2013. Full body wall mount.
All legal. Protection of property. He still got three birds that I know of... so he had to go.

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Similar to Dogleg, I shot a springbok ram with a 350 grain X bullet out of my 416 Rigby. At 287 meters. So much for "blown to bits" and "short range only"!
 
BigUglyMan said:
Similar to Dogleg, I shot a springbok ram with a 350 grain X bullet out of my 416 Rigby. At 287 meters. So much for "blown to bits" and "short range only"!
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Yes, the .416's are great, as they do offer good long range performance. A 340gr Woodleigh at 2650fps gives you a +/- 3" point blank range of 254 yards, and only 8.5" low at 300 yards.

Perhaps they are even better than the .375 H&H as an all-arounder.:D
 
Not small big game but grouse with a 45LC. (it works but it can cause some damage if you don't hit em in the head...ugh...) Rabbit with a 30-06. (again, hit them in the head) Beaver with a 30-06. (you don't have much choice but to hit em in the head when they're swimming) That's about all i can think of right now.
 
Tried doing a headshot with a 300 win mag, on a ruffed grouse at about 100-120 yards when we saw it on a gravel trail up in front of us walk out....missed the head, and hit the body.....similar results as clay pigeon shooting with a 12 gauge....found out my scope was'nt dialed in, and adjusted it at a gravel pit. Couple days later I got a clean head shot on a grouse, with no breast damaged from about 70 yards.
 
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