Having used everything from CB caps to hyper-velocity LR rounds for a lifetime, for the gamut of uses, I've never found shorts to be superior to Longs or Long Rifles, for anything. That said, I may have never used them for the exact things others have. Usually, the high velocity stuff passes through and leaves the critter in place, unless it kicks or reacts in such a way as to cause it to move from where it was hit. One exception ......
When I want a mess of bullfrog legs really bad I go to the ponds/lakes on my place at night with a .22 and a spotlight. We get in a boat and paddle slowly, and quietly, while the man in the front shines the banks at water level for frogs. The other man, the paddler usually, has a scoped .22 rifle. The frog always, without exception, sits right above water level, facing the water. You aim at the white throat patch just under it's "chin". A LR hollow point will kill the frog outright, and it flops backwards onto it's back, not to even twitch. I've never tried a Short hollow-point, but it might work just as well. Funny thing is, solids don't work as well. I can't imagine the bullet can be expanding in a bullfrog's neck, but that's the way the results are. HPs work best.
I could just gig them like most folks, but I just don't like seeing a stuck frog trying to push itself off the prongs of a gig with it's front feet. And I really don't like seeing them try to crawl away with their front feet after cutting their hind legs off, back on the bank. Gigged frogs rarely die from the gig. Call me a softie, but I want it dead when I put it in the fish well.
SRH
