FPE needed to kill various animals

kruzaroad wrote: Come to think of Paulo I'm going to be moving closer to town, down state hyway 2. I'll be setting up 50m shooting range you'll have to stop by. Also hit a mate up about getting shooting on a 70 arce orchard in pakiwhai, which he recons got big hares on. So I hit him up about another shooter too. He gets in professional pest shooters, so I sujested that he ask them first if they mind, as it can keep the hares wary. Let you know when I find out in a week or two.

Would be interesting to come up with a NZ pest list and our own recommended minimum FPE required for each species in NZ.
Could have a group discussion sharing experiences from everyone about their encounters with a said species and what they feel is the min FPE needed for that species.
You guys keen to start a NZ list?

I think first we'd need to define the parameters for "min FPE required".
It cant be just as a once off, flook shot. It would need to be the minimum energy required to repeatedly reach vitals and ethically dispatch a species.

Thats interesting, and some serious numbers for a break barrel, wow!!!

See its considerations like that that we would need to clarify (shot placments) before being able to define the Min FPE needed.
I think because the majority of hunters dont take head shots, and because a heart/lung shot is every bit as fatal, we should probably consider heart/lung shots as being the standard.
So maybe it should be defined as "the minumim FPE required to achieve a heart/lung shot"?
That may include having to go through the scapular.
Of course if you hit a humerous that changes everything!

Or another approach would be to say, in order to cleanly kill a (for example) rabbit, with 10 out of 10 shots, regardless of angle or shot placement, how many FPE would you need.