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- From: mjalava@lk-hp-17.hut.fi (Mika Matti Jalava)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: distance a .22 lr travels
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.122407.5488@nntp.hut.fi>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 13:16:30 GMT
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- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology
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- In article <1992Nov16.220548.10244@CERIS.Purdue.EDU> jheath@fieldofdreams.npirs.purdue.edu (Jim Heath) writes:
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- #Well, I don't believe I've ever heard of or seen anyone try to
- #wingshoot birds with a rifle. The shotgun won't carry far (200
- #yds? for birdshot).
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- In Finland many hunters shoot game birds sitting in trees. As .22
- rimfire isn't even legal to hunt with, the birds are shot with
- anything from .22 Hornet to .30-06 (I have met a guy who uses a 9.3x74
- rifle for this purpose - of course the trajectory is bad but at short
- ranges it works OK). The fact that Finland is not very populated helps
- a lot and I haven't heard of any accidents where bullets shot at birds
- have landed at an unwanted place.
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- Many hunting accidents happen every year but most of them in elk
- hunting. Sometimes someone shoots a person as an animal, but that's a
- completely different problem. Of course you must be very careful and
- think where you shoot, but at least here it is not considered
- completely irresponsible to shoot at birds with a high power rifle.
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- Mika
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