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Originally Posted by pylon
Shooting it in the head is the absolute most amateur thing you could ever do that close to the animal. Hunters almost always shoot for the heart. You aim for a tiny target like the head, and graze it, or miss, you will have a faceful of angry cat from that distance. I have a hard time believing you have been hunting long if you think a head shot would be the right plan of action. Unless of course the hunting you are talking about is the Big Buck Hunter machine at Chuck e Cheese.
And there is no more foolproof or effective gun at that distance than a shotgun. They were not killing this thing to eat it or stuff it. They had to use the most effective, and high percentage means to kill the animal. The animal suffering a few extra seconds in this scenario is not a consideration unfortunately. And that is exactly what was done. Textbook.
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The head was a lot easier to shoot at than the heart from where the cougar was laying. You say the head is a small target. Compare it to the size of a cougars heart.....
Believe whatever you want, I'm 37 years old now. They should have used a rifle, not a shotgun.