Can't educate pork

[pumpygun]

I lasted about ten minutes on that group!

[wobbly bob]

Its all to do with shot placement and being a sportsman. A sportsman ensures that all things being equal the outcome will be swift and sure. For the target kill size and the fact an air rifle pellet at under 12ft/lbs then 60m meters is getting unsporting if not outright cruel, there being too many variables that leads to success being more luck than sure. Higher powered guns might well be able to deliver more sure.

So doing it a whole lot less than sure makes the person a plank.

If you hunt long enough you will miss, you will make a mistake. Hopefully you will learn from such mistakes and try hard to do better next time. When hunting there is always a chance something will go amiss and that is normal, natural, regretful even. But to push the boundaries of equipment and ability knowingly, where success is but luck, is stupid and ignorant.
The killing business can be messy but at least have respect for the nature's life taken.

Totally agree with everything you say there, and very well put.

Unfortunately there are too many people out there who think being a sportsman means giving the quarry a sporting chance of survival by taking shots that are odds on in favour of missing the kill zone, which by their accounts is always unfeasibly large, and thereby wounding and condemning the animal to an uncertain and painful death.

Even more unfortunately, these people post their stuff on gun forums (I don’t do social media), where more diligent mods ought to be stopping them.