You guys are experienced, please tell me. Thanks!
2007-01-07 20:32:11 · 24 answers · asked by fall 4 in Sports ➔ Outdoor Recreation ➔ Hunting
Only in Hollywood where cars flip also and engines explode. Same force goes forward as it does backwards. Buckshot spreads 1 inch for every yard so a 30 yard target will have a 30 inch pattern on it. the further away it is, the bigger the pattern, not like having a brick hit you up close as you now have 9 pellots spread apart. I demonstrate this in training, 20 yard = 20 inch and so forth. If someone has seen this, its the deers reflexes that responded causing it to leap sideways.
2007-01-08 05:35:10 · answer #1 · answered by hpx645 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, at least not from the energy of the round(s) themselves.
For the shot to have enough energy to knock it's target of comparable size to the shooter back 5 feet then the shooter would also be thrown back 5 feet, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. There is simply not enough energy spread out over enough area to move a deer that far, the flesh tears instead of distributing the entire energy of the projectile, and even if it didn't the energy is not enough to pick a deer off its hooves and move it back. It will knock it down, but even this does not always happen. Deer sometimes jump when shot, sometimes they run.
2007-01-08 04:39:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Only in the movies! Bullets, even buckshot, do not cause people or deer to go flying into the air.
2007-01-08 12:22:47 · answer #3 · answered by DJ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No ! The deer may have a reflex action that would make it appear to be knocked backwards. But it is not the force of the Buckshot doing that.
2007-01-07 23:45:24 · answer #4 · answered by sonny_too_much 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Typically there is no apparent effect from the impact, other than the deer hunching up, bolting or falling dead. Even a smallish deer hit just behind the front leg, broadside, with a 3" magnum rifled slug didn't get knocked down. It didn't run far either, but that's what it did when it was hit.
2007-01-07 21:44:26 · answer #5 · answered by Chris H 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Mythbusters did an episode on this very concept, they used pig carcasses suspended in the air and shot at them with everything from a 9mm up to a 50 bmg. nothing they shot them with moved in any direction except down that includes 12ga buckshot at 10 yards. Yes this is just a Hollywood myth that got busted.
2007-01-07 23:41:59 · answer #6 · answered by Jon 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋
If you believe that you watch too much television. The side of the deer will take the impact, the deer may drop straight down, but I've never seen one fly backwards.
2007-01-07 20:38:49 · answer #7 · answered by ihookem75 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
In Wisconsin buckshot is illeagal, only slugs from a shot gun are permissable for deer. I shot at deer with my 12 guage slug gun from about 75 yards and indeed it did knock the deer back a couple a feet and straight down. It was a good clean decent harvest. The way it should be.
2007-01-07 23:42:38 · answer #8 · answered by Gabs 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋
No. Remember the deer weighs, oh say 300 pouinds. The heaviest thing you can shoot out of a shotgun is a one ounce slug (heavier than buckshot). One ounce of lead will not move 300 pounds. The velocity (speed of the round) simply allows the slug to drill a hole in the animal.
If you walk up to someone and jab a needle into their butt, they will jump about a foot in the air. The pin did not move them, the reaction to the shock and pain of the needle stick did. Same thing with shotgun, rifle, and pistol rounds.
2007-01-07 21:11:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Don't be silly. How could an ounce and a half of lead push a two hundred pound animal like that? Especially considering the shot penetrates.
2007-01-08 14:02:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋