>>1689579This. My uncle ('Nam Vet) was boating off Nantucket in the 90s and a blue whale aggressively breached close by several times. Uncle Steve placed a single .22 round from his pistol into the whales brain stem mid breach killing it instantly. He spared the young calf. Ironically he accidentally shot himself in the thigh with the same gun 13 years later and died of sepsis after 6 days. Uncle Steve didn't believe in medicine but he did believe in his .22