TassieTiger wrote:Yet head shooting accounts for a large portion of painful wounds that don’t kill immediately or at all...the skull, jaw, teeth, etc can and will deflect all manner of projectiles, a very shallow angle and a 308 at some distance = a potential ricochet.
Got any figures for that?
I think it would be small next to gutshots. Also the largest portion of wounding is probably shotguns and it would be impossible to measure. Until they find a way to individually direct pellets they will have shot hit incidental targets, broken legs,also animals that run or fly off likely carry wounds you will never know about. Next probably archery just because its more difficult to aim and predict range.
% wise I'd also put injuries to pigs and dogs mutually in pig hunting. QLD has the worlds highest wild pig population, about 25 mil , outnumbering humans 5:1. Both animals get an absolute hammering up here. No one likes to admit it but an owners financial situation may sometimes not meet the level to pay for the patch up jobs, so the dog gets 'home surgery' , guts poked back in and stiches and eventually a bullet if they dont pull through.
Its not my sport but I don't have a problem with any of it- headshoot, knife, arrows, tweeds and a $10,000 shotgun, you are always going to make something miserable at some point. Have at it.