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Originally Posted by Tomcat088
Lol, I ain't crying about it because I'm not even going to be in the hunt, I'm in Texas. I just was thinking about some of the rounds that I do use and sometimes they don't leave that much. The .22-250, .204, and .243 AI are much worse than the .223 in terms of "explosive hits." It's not just the load that makes it do that, it's the design of pretty much all of the bullets, they're made to do that. When you hit an animal with a light bullet that is moving at around 4,000 fps or faster, it's devastating. Anyway, it was just something that I'd ask about for some of the people that might shoot those calibers.
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The big fast varmint calibers do lots of damage on groundhogs here, but they don't vaporize them like they would a praire dog. Groundhogs are quite a bit bigger and can take more punishment.
I have a friend that shoots groundhogs with a high end twelve gauge, fully rifled slug gun.
There isn't much left when he hits them with that, but they pretty much stay intact when hit with typical varmint calibers.
djturnz, you know who I'm talking about.
