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Anyone have experience with these cartridges?
I have a serious stray and wild dog problem around my neck of the woods. Have tried SPCA, animal shelter, sheriff, and anyone who will listen. I get nothing but lip service. I had a large wild or I guess I should say abandoned and become wild dog (part pit bull and black Lab) that eventually became extremely aggressive to the point that is would show its teeth and growl if you approached it and my neighbor tried to shew him away from her dogs food and he did the same to her and challenged her. He had gotten is 3 fights with my dog and I was afraid one of my girls or my dog might be harmed so I called all my neighbors to be sure nobody owned the dog and contacted the sheriff one last time to come get it or I planned to shoot it. Everyone asked me to please shoot it as they were afraid of it. All I had was .223 FMJ for my Ruger Ranch Rifle. I was afraid of a riccochet with houses within 100 yards so I opted for my Mossberg 500 and some copper plated buffered OO buckshot magnum 12 guage shells. I had to make a couple of extra shoots to put the dog down fast after the first shot. I felt like Whale sh!t afterwards but it had to be done. I would prefer a one shot quick kill and I purchased some Winchester CXP1 45 grain jacketed hollow point .223 Remington cartridges today. They are rated at 3,600 fps. These cartridges seem to have the specs. I was looking for with respect to a quick, one shot kill and a bullet that will disintigrate on impact. Anyone have any experience with these or similar cartridges. They were just under $12 for 40 cartridges. All the rest of my weapons I feel are huge overkill for this use and would result in riccochet. I am also trying to be as discrete as possible so as not to upset the neighbors children. And guys, I would NEVER harm someone else's pet unless it was an immediate matter of life or limb without exhausting every other possibility. This dog was meaner than Kutter Brown but he was just trying to make a living like the rest of us. When it comes to my family, I just cannot allow a threat like that to continue. Any ideas as to another course of action would be appreciated as I HATE to shoot of hurt these animals. I tried pellet rifles, chasing them, thrown things at them and they keep coming back. I thought about trying to catch the dog and take him in like I did Koon Dog and 2 other dogs but this guy was mean......was not gonna let it happen.
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I see what you are saying Mark. I was just not too impressed with how the OO buckshot performed. I was expecting to take the dog down with one shot. I got within 15 yards and I hit him solid with the first shot but he still managed to run 30 yards and I hit him 2 more times on the run. I had to run up close to finish him.
With a Mini - 14, a scope, and explosive rounds I was thinking I could get much better shot placement. An explosive bullet like that inflicts or transfers so much of the shock energy of the bullet to the animal that it is usually dropped instantly. Or at least that has been my experience with big ole' ground hogs. I was afraid the full metal jacket bullets would just zip right through and riccochet. I have a 7mm Remington Magnum with 175 grain soft points but I figured that would be huge over kill and unneccessary risk of riccochet as well. Not to mention the crater it would leave in the ground. My 30.06 is as much or more so. I have yet to mount a scope on my 25.06 which would probably be the best of both worlds. I wanted the small fast hollow point bullet so it would not exit the body and minimize the risk of riccochet.
I am hoping this will be the last time I ever have to do this. I felt terrible after shooting that dog. Hope I NEVER have to do it again. Only thing is that this dog was living in an abandoned school bus and it looked like other dogs may have been living there with him. I sure hope not.
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Scott are those bean bag rounds allowed to be sold to us civilians? I never thought of those! I could run up on the dog and knock the taste buds out of its mouth and scare the crap out of it but not kill it. The shock of the bean bag and the muzzle blast would be very effective. That might scare them away to some place else but then they will become someone else's problem or danger.
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You are not going to believe this but now I have a stray cat problem. I think the problem may be that we live across the street and down the road from an animal clinic and people are dumping their unwanted pets there. They come around our house looking for food. This cat is the friendliest cat I have ever seen. He had no collar and I thing he was dumped. Just did not have the heart to shoot him but our dog seems to be doing a good job of running him off. Been nothing but cat fights day and night around here for the past 3 days, he is not getting along with our 2 Manx cats.
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