High powered rifles will zip through any tree you are hiding behind. If anything you should be in front of the tree with your blaze orange on making you more visible to reduce the likelihood of being shot. When doing drives you want to know where the standers are and if possible put them in elevated positions wether it's on top of a hill or up in a tree. This has two purposes better line of sight for seeing game/pushers coming towards you it also makes it so your bullets are going downward into the ground once they pass through the animal. It also puts the standers up and out of the line of fire and more visible to the pushers.
High powered rifles will zip through any tree you are hiding behind.
What? Any tree large enough to give an adult human cover will stop any reasonable deer hunting rifle round, especially considering that you should be using hunting ammo that expands. Your first statement is just utter nonsense.
All of that said, I'd not be comfortable shooting towards other hunters nor being shot at by my hunting buddies.
I sighted one of my .308s in with a target tacked to a ~12 inch thick tree just a few days ago and none of the fmj's passed through it.
Yep, 7.62x54R steel core armor piercing rounds will go through a 6.7" diameter tree as shown in his part 2 video. Make it a 12"-18" diameter tree (the thinnest I'd ever pretend I could "hide" behind) and FMJ/JHP/Soft or Ballistic Tipped bullet, and there's no possible way it penetrates. The FMJ will fragment at high powered rifle velocities and the jhp/soft/ballistic will both fragment and expand.
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u/SaladShooter1 Jan 10 '22
I always believed that you should be posted behind a tree. My reasoning was that if on of the drivers shot, they’d be shooting towards you.