buckshot for deer, ethics.
Wound statistics on game animals come from the persons opinion on the implement. I have never seen any sort of official statistic on caliber effectiveness and I would fully expect and such number to be flawed beyond usefulness.
You don't have to hang around the forums long before you'll figure out that if every restrictive opinion were actually enforced virtually all hunting would be illegal.
Somebody here thinks just about every possible weapon, cartridge, distance, method and style of hunting is unfair, cheating, unethical, unskilled, too easy, cruel, etc, etc, ad nauseum.
A rifle too weak (under a certain arbitrary number created to exclude said cartridge) is unethical, one too strong (see 50BMG discussion) is stupid, unethical, etc, pick your word. Stand hunting is for sissies. Long range shots are for people who can't hunt.
I was just having a discussion today about why, for example, wounding a deer and having it take 5 or 10 minutes to die is unethical but poisoning a mouse and letting it suffer for hours is perfectly fine.
It all reminds me if the old saying, Never judge a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes.
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