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Post by crittergetter100 on Mar 28, 2005 21:34:23 GMT -5
remington model 700 280cal. mountain riffle
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Post by Seldom on Mar 29, 2005 19:06:03 GMT -5
Let me qualify my type of deer hunting before I answer the question. Here where I hunt few shots are over 100 yds and most under. All shots are quick and taken in thick woods or tag alder swamps. The deer can be walking, sneaking or flat out running but seldom standing. No neck shots or shoulder shots either; I’m a lung/rib shooter, through the lungs clean and simple. With that said, I’ve killed a bunch of deer since 1964 with .300 Savages, 30-06’s, and 7mm-08’s and watched a lot more get killed with other calibers but I’ve never been more impressed then I have been with the .450 Hornady Mag. It’s just a magnum punkinballer but you poke a whitetail through the ribs and you’d think it had a pickup truck dropped on it! I’m not talking shoulder stuff, I’m talking ribs and lungs and nothing else. Down! Down flat! Maybe one kick!! I hunt on state property and if a deer runs much over 100-150 yds after it’s been hit, you got a fight on your hands to claim your deer. Even more then the quick knockdown, what I really like about it is that I don’t have bloodshot meat like I did with the other calibers. A nice big hole going in and a little bigger hole going out. No blowing the meat away from the rib cage. No more bloodshot under the backstraps. No bloodshot meat, no meat wasted, period! ;D IMHO
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Post by bobkat on Mar 30, 2005 10:07:22 GMT -5
My favorite for deer is my .50 muzzle loader. 85 grains of Triple 7 fff and a 260 bullet. Shoot it all thru black powder and gun season. Have not had a deer get away yet!
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Post by MChewk on Jun 14, 2005 7:00:37 GMT -5
Bow hunter mostly....AND we have to use the ALMIGHTY shotgun slug when we do gun hunt. I see there are alot of bowhunters on here...For me...my opinion,... after hunting with a bow slug/rifle hunting is a breeze.
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Post by 45/70 on Jun 14, 2005 10:24:46 GMT -5
Really depends on several things; In the swamp, very open cropland, open woods, mixture of woods and smaller cropland.
Also depends on how I am going to hunt: still hunt, stand hunt, etc.
Once in a while, I just have to break out a gun from nostalgia. Such as the sporterized .30/40 Krag I killed my first deer with,
or Grandfather's old md. 97, 32" full. It's killed some deer, but more squirrels -- sometimes feel like I want to walk the woods with
the old man one more time.
Adios, 45/70, RKBA !!!
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Post by Snareman on Jun 14, 2005 12:43:52 GMT -5
I often feel that same way 45/70. At least the ol' man took me out enough to give me memories to ponder over while he's away.
Snareman
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Post by chuck88 on Jul 11, 2005 11:38:39 GMT -5
well my love would be bowhunting its so much more chalenging to get a deer within 25 yards for a shot then whenever you see it shoot it. But I also do rifle hunt and i shoot a .308 winchester model 88 i've dropped deer at 10yards out to 250 yards i shoot 150 grain bullets and a shot behind the shoulder drops them in their tracks. like stated above shot placement is more important then the caliber used. (on deer anyway, probley not moose or bear, never hunted them but if i hunted bear i would want a big rifle)
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Post by orcatthinner on Jul 27, 2005 17:06:12 GMT -5
killed my first buck with a .270. that kinda made my grandpa mad cause everyone in the family killed their first with a .243. but then my second was with a .243. my 3rd was a muzzleloader and last year with a bow. i love my .243 and would never trade it for nothin. have shot a deer at 10 yards and antelope at 420 with it. and droped a bear with it also. now i plan on taggin a elk with it. JP
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