[laplata]

One can completely blow the heart out of a charging Cape Buffalo with a .700 Nitro Express and he can still charge hundreds of feet and grind you into hamburger

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Not if you hit him when he’s far enough away.

[digger48]

That’s the idea.

just pointing out that anyone who has ever hunted knows an animal doesn’t always drop in it tracks when suffering a fatal shot.

Wannabe-thugs are no different

[arthurus]

One can completely blow the heart out of a charging Cape Buffalo with a .700 Nitro Express and he can still charge hundreds of feet and grind you into hamburger

Not if you hit him when he’s far enough away.

That is implicit in the original statement that included "hundreds of feet." It is better, of course, to shoot it farther than that "hundreds of feet" away