1911 guy
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I understand your concern, but...
Rest easy, Glockfan, there's a method to the seeming madness of using a .22 rimfire on livestock, and it will drop them DRT. If you make a cross (chalk or imaginary line) from an animals left ear to its right eye and left eye to right ear, the intersection of those two lines is the shortest path to the brain.
Commercial slaughterhouses use a thing called a "captive bolt", basically a spike powered by a .22 blank, same as commercial nail guns. Even large livestock will hit the floor in a heap.
Back before federal regulations, many slaughter houses had a "chalker" and a "hammer". Chalker would make the "X" as the cattle went by in a chute, the hammer was the biggest guy they could find to hire and hand a sledge hammer. That was my Dad's first job out of high school.
Rest easy, Glockfan, there's a method to the seeming madness of using a .22 rimfire on livestock, and it will drop them DRT. If you make a cross (chalk or imaginary line) from an animals left ear to its right eye and left eye to right ear, the intersection of those two lines is the shortest path to the brain.
Commercial slaughterhouses use a thing called a "captive bolt", basically a spike powered by a .22 blank, same as commercial nail guns. Even large livestock will hit the floor in a heap.
Back before federal regulations, many slaughter houses had a "chalker" and a "hammer". Chalker would make the "X" as the cattle went by in a chute, the hammer was the biggest guy they could find to hire and hand a sledge hammer. That was my Dad's first job out of high school.