>>347275It's the cheapest alternative next to stumbling across an animal that's already dead.
Fucking repeatedly pelting an animal with a small round that is largely incapable of killing it on the spot, just cause it great pain and wounding, is cheap, but it's also a terrible thing to do.
Imagine getting stabbed with a blunt ice-pick a few dozen times, and then some dude breaks in your head with a rock, if you had to choose between getting killed slowly and horribly, full of fright, or in a brief moment, maybe even instantly, what would you chose?
They could have sold or traded in one or both of their .22's for a single-shot 12-gauge or 20-gauge shotgun, and a box of buckshot, very cheap, and without question a more humane weapon to take the animal down with.
Pic related can be found used, in good or passable condition, for rarely more than 100 dollars, maybe less, in every single state in America.
I do not believe that they couldn't trade in their rimfire rifle(s) for one of these and a box of buckshot.
