The Inexplicable Happened....
So, as many of you (if not all) have targeted vermin to maintain your skills, or to just keep the ruckus in the attic down. When I was a boy my father had a small feed store, and I was his official pest controller. To date I've shot hundreds, it's almost reflexive, but this week an anomaly occurred which I thought impossible. I put one down with a shot to the head with a .22, using an unplated round nosed bullet. It fell, it twitched, and when I picked it up, the thing started to squeak and hack. The thought that I had just graised it flashed through my mind, until I turned it around....and saw it was missing a piece of skull 3/8 of an inch in diameter. I could see it's brain, and the bullet hole in it, it had been a properly executed shot. I immediately put it on the ground to finish it off, but discovered my magazine was empty, so I had to step into the house to grab another bullet. I was still trying to breathe, and squeaking when I returned to finish it.
In my lifetime I never thought this was something that was possible. Spasmodic muscular movements, sure, seen plenty, but this squirrel, I swear it was still conscious. The bullet went through both hemispheres of the brain, and caused a significant amount of blood loss, and yet it clung on for over a minute until I finished it off. I wouldn't believe it, if I hadn't seen it myself. Has anyone else seen something like this occur? It just defies everything my experience has taught me to be true.
The Inexplicable Happened....
Popped a tree rat in the head with my .22 lr. hv non- hp’s. It ran up the rest of the tree, kept running as I t fell from a high oak, hit the ground & stopped. Picked it up and turned it over, looking at the hole and brains [emoji3447]. It cake to in my hand & tried to bite me. I rang its neck like a chicken [emoji239]. I was a teen & it was a bit unsettling! Began using hollow points after that.
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