When my daughter and I were turning in the DLP -defense of life & property- bear I had to kill with a 9mm last year the F&W troopers were most interested in what ammo I used. They get called upon to dispatch many moose that have been hit by vehicles and said that when they were issued 357 revolvers things worked fine but they claimed that the ammo they were issued in their 40 autos made the task difficult at best.
Phil, we discovered the same problem in rural Wisconsin when deputies were frustrated in their efforts at trying to dispatch injured deer and livestock at the roadside. The official solution in my county was to have the deputies use their AR-15 carbines for this job. Neither the .40's we had when I started with the agency nor the .45's we went to before I left seemed to work very well. I suspect a large part of the problem was a combination of not knowing where to shoot the animal and not getting close enough to ensure a lethal hit.
On the other hand, I know several deputies that I routinely trained with in that department who "just happened" to routinely carry a couple of rounds of hard-cast, heavy-for-caliber bullets in a spare pocket here or there for road kill use, and that seemed to work just fine for them. I won't say those were Buffalo Bore rounds, but I won't say they weren't, either...
Last edited by DocRocket; 08/08/17.
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