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Old January 18, 2012, 10:52 AM   #2
30-30remchester
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Join Date: April 18, 2009
Location: mountains of colorado
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I have tried to finish off exactly one fawn mule deer with a 12 guage slug without sucsess so my experence is quite limited. However I study terminal ballistics and have well over 100 spent bullets in my collection taken from game animals so I do have some experence. The 12 guage is known as a great stopping gun on light big game. The one problem many report is the soft foster slugs. These were designed for deer and quite often wont completely penatrate even a small whitetail. There are companies the produce hard cast slugs of great length and weight that dont expand and should be very good on heavy game. As the surface area broadens from expansion, penatration decreases. The soft foster slugs expand quite nicely on small game animals so would assume penatration on bigger game animals would be less than desireable on anything but broadside shots. Again coming from the west where I live there is nill shotgun and slug hunting here.
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