What makes for a good cow gun'

[GatorFarmer]

According to today's Washington Post, cows kill 20 times as many Americans a year on average as do either sharks or bears, the cource purportedly being CDC data. To be precise, bears and sharks each kill an average of one person a year...while cows kill 20.

That does seem an undercounting of bear attacks, as it seems many more are reported here any given year. (An unknown number of which are or course cover stories for those unfortunate victims of Sasquatch mating attempts.) Still, this suggests that we have been on the wrong track in always discussing bear guns and worrying about bear attacks. In fact it was the cows all along that we had to be worried about.

Given their wide spread prevalence in the United States, we are all at risk from bovine aggression. Thus I wonder, what makes an appropriate cow gun?

 

[fat tom]

Slow day,huh Gator?
f.t.

 

[glenncal1]

I prefer a sharp steak knife, seasoned salt and good cracked pepper. And of course a nice chianti

 

[S&WIowegan]

WOW!! Who knew? I was raised on a farm where we had both dairy cattle and feeder cattle(raised for beef) and I was never attacked even once. I did get kicked a few times by dairy cows. I didn't kill them though...just shot their hoof off with my trusty Winchester Model 62.


PS Gator...go change a diaper.

 

[DeathGrip]

Watch out, They'll shoot back.

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[zzzippper]

Now, now. I was recently lectured that every life is precious and should not be made light of.

 

[Rustyt1953]

A cowitzer firing a 5lb ground round.

I'll show myself out.

 

[zzzippper]

Cow lives matter.

 

[Eaglestroker]

A coworker of my BIL put one down at the sale barn with a 44 mag. The sale barn sent his clinic a bill about 2 weeks later because the bullet passed through and hit a water main.

Be sure what's behind the cow is all I'm sayin'

 

[Iggy]

If a cow critter can do it to you, it's been done to me. Some was defending a calf and some was just durned unfriendly to the core.

As I am typing this, Fox News put out a teaser about what critter kills the most people.. I'm anxiously waiting for the commercial to end so I can find out..

As far as what gun. .22 LR will drop one DRT. You just have to know where to aim, so will a ball peen hammer if you can get close enough.

 

[wbraswell]

Gun? I knew a kid who was throwing rocks into a cow pond, just to watch them splash. He looked around saw a couple of cows watching him. He picked up a rock that was a little bigger than a golf ball, rared back and threw it at them. He hit one right square between the eyes. Imagine his shock when it fell stone cold dead right there! He was one of those guys, who really wasn't a bad kid, but if anybody was going to get caught for something, it always seemed to be him. Yeah, he was in trouble. He was about 15 or 16 at the time.

 

[austinjeane]

Shark Attack

I also read that article in the Washington Post today and was relieved that shark attacks only average one fatality a year. Guess you're fairly safe in your bath tub!

 

[venomballistics]

Crush the angus uprising

 

[M E Morrison]

If a cow critter can do it to you, it's been done to me. Some was defending a calf and some was just durned unfriendly to the core.

As I am typing this, Fox News put out a teaser about what critter kills the most people.. I'm anxiously waiting for the commercial to end so I can find out..

As far as what gun. .22 LR will drop one DRT. You just have to know where to aim.

Grandpa preferred the 22 Special....

 

[Arik]

I carry this. It's very effective against cows

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Sometimes When I'm out on BLM land I encounter cows.
They usually pay me no attention.
The only animal that I've a problem with is dogs.
Aggressive dogs are a problem here in NM and have killed people.

 

[GatorFarmer]

They are all slow days in Wyoming. Or so it seems. Cows out number people here by two to one. There are perhaps a thousand grizzly bears at most, but there are at least 1.2 million(!) cows. The horror.

While most cow attacks happen on farms and ranches, there is always the chance of an escapee going on a rampage. Further adding to the danger, some parts of America have populations of feral cows. Apparently they are a problem for hikers in California.

Combined with anecdotal reports of cows opportunistic feeding on meat and it seems we are all in much great peril from cows than previously thought.

Suddenly the Thompson-LaGarde tests are strikingly relevant after all. While the .30 Luger was the only round to give a one shot stop, if memory serves, the .45 Colt and what eventually emerged as the pattern for the .45 ACP gave good results on cattle. Though those were captive specimens. We can only assume that a wild one on a deadly rage fueled rampage would be harder to put down.

I wonder, is a medium bore like the .375 H&H enough gun, or should we assume that the .41 caliber rule becomes necessary? An average beef cattle may weigh 1600 pounds, big ones 2500 pounds. That is eight to twelve tons of hooves, horns and pure menace.

Now that the danger is known perhaps we need a new colloquial class of rifles, the cow rifle, to protect us from this threat....

 

[jrd1976]

My brother dispatched one about 30 years ago with a Model 27, 5", Nickle, 357 Mag.
One shot one kill.

I'm still disappointed he sold it and didn't offer it to me. Quite a sought after gun now.

 

[claudel]

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As I am typing this, Fox News put out a teaser about what critter kills the most people.. I'm anxiously waiting for the commercial to end so I can find out..

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In North America, I'd be guessing whitetail...

 

[Iggy]

Turns out it is Dogs.

BTW the EPA is deeply concerned that the methane emitted in cow farts maybe the major cause of "global warning" There is talk of requiring gas filters on cows..

Who's gonna install and maintain those?

They would have had a hissy fit back in the days when buffalo roamed.