Thinking of taking my garand on an audad hunt. Im finding very little info online about the terminal performance of m2 ball. Should I be able to expect this projectile to yaw inside a large animal like a 300lb ram or big boar? Any known gel test or military testing?
Question asks about shooting "audad."
That's a sheep isn't it?
Found in the Rocky Mountains.
You're gonna hunt mountain sheep with a Garand?
Iron sights?
Heavy trigger.
Ball ammo?
If you have the opportunity for a sheep hunt, I'd recommend a different rifle just from the standpoint of weight of the gun and weight of the trigger.
M2 ball through a sheep is probably not gonna yaw much.
Definitely will kill sheep.
The way people fuss about "don't use FMJ for hunting" is over-emphasized to the point of being hysterical on the internet.
A .30 caliber that blows all the way through an animal is gonna kill it. And fast.
But if I'm going to all the trouble to go mountain-climbing, I'm probably gonna use a rifle that weighs less, and that has a lighter trigger, and with some sort of Gucci ammo. Mainly just so I don't have to listen to people lecturing about not using FMJ. Good shot placement with M2 ball 30-06 ammo kills everything. Real fast. Doesn't matter whether the bullet goes straight-through, or sideways, or bass-ackwards. Any flavor of 30-06 is devastating on animate objects.
FWIW, I once shot a 90# deer RIGHT THROUGH THE HEART with a Remington Core-Lokt 150-grain 30-06.
Right at dusk.
Close range - about 40 yards.
That little deer still ran off far enough that I could not find it before it got too dark too track. Which was about 10 minutes after I shot it.
I'm not sure where it started spewing blood. It defintely didn't start leaving a blood trail at the exact spot I shot it.
Had to come back in the morning to get the carcass.
In the sunshine the next morning I found a really big blood trail that led me to the carcass.
But that little deer ran a good 50 yards through brush before it died.
Expanding bullet didn't do anything magic. Just made a hole in the heart for the blood to run out.
Entry hole was .30 caliber. Exit hole wasn't a whole lot bigger.
But definitely let all the blood out.
A non-expanding bullet would have had the same effect.