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Aswad -> RE: Gun facts (12/17/2012 5:55:33 PM)
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In the spirit of the OP...
Hunting rifles: one shot, one clean kill.
Combat rifles: enough lead on target to neutralize the threat.
Around these parts, the most popular hunting rifle caliber is the 6.5x55mm, which in the hands of someone used to it will reliably drop some of the largest game animals we have out to a substantial range with a single hit, and which will reliably kill their two legged counterparts out to about half a mile in the same hands.
If you want to hunt bear with center mass shots, you'll need something a bit larger, and the .338 lapua magnum is gaining ground among the hunters and target shooters, which theoretically permits dropping a bear about a mile out, though I obviously wouldn't attempt that. That round has the longest confirmed human kill of 2.8km (1.7 miles), with a double kill confirmed at 2.5km (1.5 miles), and there's plenty of "young adults" using it here.
That said, most of the time, from what I can tell, spree killings tend to be fairly up close and personal, where any caliber will "do the job", and handgun shooting victims seem to substantially outnumber rifle shooting victims, even when we include spree killings. For spree killings, I suspect shotguns will "get the job done" as readily as, if not more so than, rifles and handguns. Converting rifles and shotguns to handguns seems to be a comparative rarity, but that might change (sawing them down is common in Norway as a substitute for having handguns, but it still seems to be a fairly rare thing).
I'll leave out the political conclusions.
IWYW,
— Aswad.
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