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My brother got this one today!
 
When my brother was caping the above elk he stabbed his leg really bad. He ran a Havalon Baracuta 4 1/2 inch blade, through the front of his leg beside his shin bone and the tip was out through his calf. So the knife was in his leg all the way to the handle.

I asked him if he wanted me to pull it out and he said I don’t know as I was checking it out and looking at the bleeding. As I was looking at it I could tell it was not bleeding that bad. I told him I don’t know either and as I said it pull it out as hard as I could. For some reason I thought it could be stuck but it came out easy.

It was really weird seeing that, kinda like it is this real.

My brother is fine and has a really sore leg but a very big elk.

He was cutting the hide down the back of the neck. It’s really think so it can be like cutting zip ties. He just was going to fast and obviously had his leg in a bad spot!
 
Phill50 said:
When my brother was caping the above elk he stabbed his leg really bad. He ran a Havalon Baracuta 4 1/2 inch blade, through the front of his leg beside his shin bone and the tip was out through his calf. So the knife was in his leg all the way to the handle.

I asked him if he wanted me to pull it out and he said I don’t know as I was checking it out and looking at the bleeding. As I was looking at it I could tell it was not bleeding that bad. I told him I don’t know either and as I said it pull it out as hard as I could. For some reason I thought it could be stuck but it came out easy.

It was really weird seeing that, kinda like it is this real.

My brother is fine and has a really sore leg but a very big elk.

He was cutting the hide down the back of the neck. It’s really think so it can be like cutting zip ties. He just was going to fast and obviously had his leg in a bad spot!
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I'm glad he's okay. When the knives come out that is generally the most dangerous part of the hunt. What a fine bull tho..........:thumbsup:
 
Phill50 said:
When my brother was caping the above elk he stabbed his leg really bad. He ran a Havalon Baracuta 4 1/2 inch blade, through the front of his leg beside his shin bone and the tip was out through his calf. So the knife was in his leg all the way to the handle.
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He was cutting the hide down the back of the neck. It’s really think so it can be like cutting zip ties. He just was going to fast and obviously had his leg in a bad spot!
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Hope he has a speedy recovery. That's a really scary thing to have happen. I've never hunted larger animals, so I never thought about all of the dangers. The worst thing I've have happened when processing birds is getting spiked by a broken bone. Bird bones are scary sharp.
 
Phill50 said:
We don’t have them on the Oregon coast. We have lots of Nutria to kill.
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Copy that, I didn’t think OR was part of their range, but didn’t know if maybe you had rock chucks or something similar out there. Since you have nutria, it’s about the same, just instead of living in the wetlands and chewing on everything, these guys live in pasture and crop land and dig holes, like everywhere.
bluemax_1 said:
Was that with the Impact?
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Unfortunately, no. The impact has very similar results on starlings however, can be rough on a smaller rodent head as well.
Southern Appalachia said:
Grenock Grenock 2022 whistlepig removal by the gentlemanly 22 mag. what the dickens did you use lmao?

https://imgur.com/a/RQ5ToGo
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Ah yeah, I have killed plenty of them with a .22 mag. This was just a .223 running a 50 grain V-max out of an 18.5” AR at 176 yards. I generally go for head shots on these guys, in this particular case, he was at a hole that is exactly 176 yards off my back deck that I have taken a good number from over the years. Going off the deck, off sandbags, at a known distance let’s me go for a fairly fine aiming point to get a dramatic impact. At an unknown distance, I would have dropped it below his nose and gone right through his teeth for a larger margin for error. With this one, based on all the known conditions, I could go for that thin band of skull above the eye and pop his top, which is exactly what happened this time.
 
Grenock said:
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Unfortunately, no. The impact has very similar results on starlings however, can be rough on a smaller rodent head as well.
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Phew...

You just saved me $2xxx 😅. I've been thinking about those Impacts for a while, but 'haven't pulled the trigger on one' yet.

I was thinking if it could do THAT to a groundhog, I'd have to bite. 50gr VMax from a .223/5.56 makes a lot more sense lol.
 
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