"Peter Wiley" wrote in message
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Max, if I'm hunting for the pot, I'm not there to play games. I use a
spotlight and a scope sighted rifle shooting from the back of a 4WD,
and if I can't get a clean head shot, I don't shoot.

Simple.

And illegal in my state. No lights and no shots from a vehicle allowed.

If you shoot a kangaroo through the chest, even with a .243 using
hollow points, it's odds-on it's gonna run 150-200 metres before
bleeding out and stopping.

A roo is a big animal. Why are you using a piddly .243? A Winchester
..300WSM or 7mm WSM would make more sense, it would seem. The explosive
power of the expansion from either of those rounds would stop a roo dead in
his tracks even if you hit an inch from his heart.

Rabbits, foxes & feral cats, OTOH, we used to shoot for fun. Chest
shots were plenty good enough.

We don't have feral cats, but we shoot rabbits here with .22 handguns.
Foxes are protected in my area--they were nearly hunted to extinction back
in the 70s.

Max