Dr Fox
Whirling Dervish
Reged: Mar 11 2005
Posts: 41
Loc: Wales, UK
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Re: 17 remington on fox
Sat Aug 09 2008 06:05 AM
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Now here’s a thing!! I think I may have discovered a truth, the answer to our debate, as to why the penetration results on foxes differ, on either side of the Atlantic.
In a word animal ‘size’.
After posting pictures and sizes of our foxes, I noted your comments like “small coyote” “big foxes”. So with a larger body mass offering more resistance to the round, I formed the opinion, that what works for me may not hold true for you!
Could this theory be tested? I knew of an area that has feral cats, these cats are about the size of a domestic cat, but are nowhere near our average fox size. From my last post until now, I have visited that area to try to account for one of these critters.
At 95m into centre of mass, the fur damage done was very evident, this with the same round I use for fox work! I do not get exit wounds on foxes as a norm, but I have now thinking about it, seen damage on young or undersized foxes.
The debate, velocity x penetration = fur damage is still open, but I’d like to think this is possibly the answer.
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