My thread about 270 or 338 got me thinking. What are your most overkill kills.

In order: Beaver 458 Lott 500 grains rain beaver parts down like rain.
Beaver 500 ne noting left in the middle, just spine, legs, and head.
Mud turtle 405 win 300 spire point similar to 458 beaver, small pieces mixed with water raining down.
180 pound whitetail 375 Ruger 300 DGX behind last rib ranging up. Liquified everything it touched.
Gray squirrel 2 oz 3 1/2 12 gauge. Nothing left but the head and spine. I had the wrong shell in gun.

Hoary marmot (aka whistle pig aka rockchuck) with a .458 WinMag.
The old Hornady RNSP 500-grainer at 2150 fps was more than adequate for marmot or moose out to 100 yards, from soup to nuts.

Wild turkey with a 300 Weatherby Magnum at 50 yards.
Took his head clean off, more velocity than needed was used.

Fallow deer doe with a .416 Rigby and 350-grain X-Bullet at 342 yards. Field-dressed on the hoof.

.395/.416 Rigby (.395 Tatanka) with 340-grain GSC HV at 2750 fps on nice whitetail buck at 25 yards, from a tree stand:
I could have lost my balance from the recoil, but I did not, thankfully.
Same-same with .375 RUM and 300-grain Swift A-Frame.
Whitetail doe was taken on the ground with .395 Tatanka and .395/310-grain S&H Hexploding brass bullets at 2800 fps.
Baboons in Tanzania too.
Just a little bit overkilled on those.

400 Whelen on Bambi and his mother, bang-bang, the 300-grain Hornady SP makes a mess of deer at close range.
Culling the herd in family units is best,
his father was taken earlier.

223 Rem, 50-grain ballistic tip on bobcat at 25 feet: He exploded. I was able to recover the head for skull as a trophy.

Trophy opossum clubbed in head with big stick. More stick than necessary. He was mounted in a life-like pose and graces a local sporting emporium.

Underkill:
I chipped the antler of a big whitetail buck with same 223 round at 300 yards.
He was grazing and ducking his head towards his vitals when I fired.
He ran off about 30 yards then stopped to look around to see where those pesky bullets were coming from. One more shot and he went down.
He is mounted, on my wall.

I better stop now ...


Anyone who claims the .458 Winchester Magnum is ineffective has either not tried one, or is unwittingly commenting on their own sheepishness.
Rip...

Jack Rabbit with 416 Rigby, 400 gr Hdy (pre DGX)
1st shot took him a little far back and his initial reaction was to look around and notice that he was "leaking". This must have really pissed him off because he immediately charged the vehicle we were in with his tushes extended. Needless to say, I carefully placed the next shot between he headlights and he crumpled with his front paws touching the front tire. A close call indeed but the Rigby proved itself more than up to the challenge.

Chipmunk- 20 Ga 3" mag w/#5 shot at 20 feet.

What chipmunk?

I tend not to overkill as a rule, but this was intentional.

Steenbok with a 416 Rigby?

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Originally posted by Pancho:
Jack Rabbit with 416 Rigby, 400 gr Hdy (pre DGX)
1st shot took him a little far back and his initial reaction was to look around and notice that he was "leaking". This must have really pissed him off because he immediately charged the vehicle we were in with his tushes extended. Needless to say, I carefully placed the next shot between he headlights and he crumpled with his front paws touching the front tire. A close call indeed but the Rigby proved itself more than up to the challenge.

Sounds more like “under kill” you had to shoot twice.

I hope that the Statute of Limitations has passed: .375 AI with 270 TSX a duck at 200 yrds. I was supposed to hit under the sitting (on water) duck, to have the hydraulic force of the water kill the duck. I hit high....no duck for the table! memtb

Squirrel 375 H&H 300 grain triple shock

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Originally posted by Vaquero:
Squirrel 375 H&H 300 grain triple shock

Did you bark him or actually hit him?

Skunk at 20 yards with a 12 gauge 1 1/8 ounce ...

... slug.

I have two contenders for biggest overkill.

Ground squirrel with a 300 grain TSX out of my 375 H&H

A fly with a 36 grain Varmint Grenade from my 22.250 at 4,000 fps.

Damara Dik Dik, Red Duiker and Suni with a .375 Flanged..

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A fly with a 36 grain Varmint Grenade from my 22.250 at 4,000 fps

I ran 4 out of 5 flies on day at a 100 yards with a 223 the 5th one move just at trigger let off.

Just parts of legs and wings around the holes.

One can not over kill a porcupine. The deader the better.

Hit him

Raccoon with 375 H&H. It was a pass through.

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Originally posted by p dog shooter:

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A fly with a 36 grain Varmint Grenade from my 22.250 at 4,000 fps

I ran 4 out of 5 flies on day at a 100 yards with a 223 the 5th one move just at trigger let off.

Just parts of legs and wings around the holes.

One can not over kill a porcupine. The deader the better.

My records say it was a 69 grain SMK instead of a Varmint Grenade

A muskrat at 30 yards with a .458 Lott.

Skunk at about 20 yards with a 300 grain, .458 Hornady Hollow Point from an 1895 Marlin .45/70 lever action.

Skunk was running straight away from me and I hit it square in the ass. It just sort of disintegrated at the shot.

Turkey with 375H&H 250gr NorthFork SS.

Badger also with 375H&H 250 SS.

Softshell with 500gr FMJ 45-70.

Bullfrog 825gr 600 OverKill.

Blue-wing Teal 1-3/4oz of Hevi #6 10ga about 4 yards out.

Field Rat with 240gr Hornady 454Casull.

Good shooting Vaquero and to all yo fly shooters as well.

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Originally posted by LHeym500:
Good shooting Vaquero and to all yo fly shooters as well.

Ditto.

I want to take up fly shooting with my 22-250 Tikka T3X.

I may have bagged a grasshopper or two,
but I have never baited for flies at the rifle range.

What do you guys smear on your targets to draw flies?


Anyone who claims the .458 Winchester Magnum is ineffective has either not tried one, or is unwittingly commenting on their own sheepishness.
Rip...

A pigeon with a 460 Weatherby Magnum.

A small garden mouse with both a 460 Weatherby and a 300 Weatherby Magnum.

Crabs off rocks with a 220 Swift.

Crabs off rocks with a 22-243 Middleastead.

Many small antelopes - duikers, klipspringers etc with a 375/404.

A hard disk with a 700 Nitro Express.

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What do you guys smear on your targets to draw flies?

Mine we were having a tent caterpillar out break the blue flies are their natural enemy.

There were many flies around preying on the tent caterpillars, so they landed on every thing.

It was just natural to try to shoot a few when they landed on the target.

Uh...I have no problem with this thread but conversations about hunters putting our best foot forward are often brought up around here with the intent to to help our PR. This is not helping.

Do you honestly believe that those people that want hunting stopped really differentiate between an "Overkill" and a clean one shot kill?

No they don't. If we were going out, chasing animals down and strangling them, they still want hunting in ANY form stopped.

Should hunters become the "Homosexuals" of the 21st. century and go into the closet and not discuss hunting in public?

Anyone who does not like what do can go to hell!

I do not waste my time protesting what others do, I have a life that I enjoy fully.

Those with no purpose in their lives can jump off the bloody cliff as far as I am concerned!

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Originally posted by Saeed:
Anyone who does not like what do can go to hell!

I do not waste my time protesting what others do, I have a life that I enjoy fully.

Those with no purpose in their lives can jump off the bloody cliff as far as I am concerned!

This ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Several whitetails with my 2002 F250 7.3 diesel. For some reason they love to play chicken with my truck and always end up losing.

I have been real lucky on that one, I can only remember one. It tried to cross the road between my pick-up and the trailer I was pulling.

Ground hog.
450 NE hornady 325 grain FTX at 2400.
Crows didn't have to work hard.
Its my preferred GH gun.

Nitro

Maybe a smallbore by this thread, but a blue grouse with a .300 Weatherby. I was trying to hit his head, aimed a little too low - even feathers were hard to find!

I would observe that most of these overkills are varmit or nussiance animals. On the medium big game when more than enough gun was used the overkill application ensured death quicker maybe, maybe not, and no meat was wasted. At least, in my cases. I will not speak for anyone else.

I believe in honest reporting about what hunting is. I will never apologize for good shooting. However, I will not go out of my way to upset or dissolution a non hunter. Unless, I can do so face to face in the context of having a conversation. I am not ashamed. I will not hide. But I am not going to walk into a Chatolic Church and start trying to make everyone baptist. That is why this conversation is on Accurate Reloading and not Facebook.

I will yield to the counsel of elders. If a majority thinks the thread is harmful to hunting, tell me in PM, and I will delete it.

I honestly do not think the masses care or even know what a groundhog or whisper pig is. No marketing/money for antis to be made off them.

I ate so many of them growing up, I will not shot another, but I am not everyone with large green fields these things can destroy.

If someone was being blankly disrespectful or using crude language, I would agree with you. But I have not read it.

I don't see any problem with the thread.

I am pretty sure plenty of the Anti's have did their share of Overkills driving to protests concerning hunting.

Doe with a .585 Nyati at about 20 yrds. Jeffe may still have the pics! Looked like a beer can got rammed through it! Vaporizing a coyote at 50 yrds with a 12gaFH with a 250 gr aluminum bullet at about 5000fps! Red mist level!
Oh yes, screw all PC “hunters” I have spoken!

Ground hog with .50 BMG.

It wasn’t very spectacular, half inch hole thru it and stopped moving.

So far a Spike and 3 pigs with my 585 Hubel Express, and I just broke in my .416 Ruger with a doe and a turkey last weekend.

A red hind with the .458 lott
Several roe deers and foxes, a hare and a guineafowl with the .375 H&H magnum.

I hope to shoot whitetail with my .375 whitworth over the next few days.

A flat out running feral cat at 30 yards with a 460 Weatherby Magnum..... Literally turned it inside out.

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Originally posted by LHeym500:
I would observe that most of these overkills are varmit or nussiance animals. On the medium big game when more than enough gun was used the overkill application ensured death quicker maybe, maybe not, and no meat was wasted. At least, in my cases. I will not speak for anyone else.

I think that it's because we were asked for the most overkill. For a game animal my record is probably a steenbok with a 300 grain TSX from my 375 H&H but there are probably tons of them shot with big bores using solids.