Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Deer Hunting What Is It About 300 Pound Deer?

Well, I live in the area and hunt the whitetails in question...

I/we've used everything from a .257 Roberts (favourite), .250/3000 (.250 Savage), .264 Win, .260 Rem, .280 Ack Imp (favourite), just bought a 7mm RSUM, 7mm Rem mag, 7mm-08, .300 Weatherby, H&H and Win mags, .30 WCF, .318 WR, .35 Rem, .35 Whelan .358 Win, .45/70 and the most, 75%, were taken with a .303 British...

The quarter bores (.250) would be the smallest calibre that I would even consider...As we might encounter moose in some of the areas while deer hunting most of the guys, with moose & deer tags, carry heavier calibers, so hence the big mags and .35 calibres...I prefered my .318 WR and just love the .358 Win Browning BLR for moose!

The primary difference was whether we were hunting grains fields or scrub brush or heavy bush and that dictates what we used...Fields go for miles so any distance is foreseeable but 200 to 300 is the norm, scrub bush anything from 25 to 250 yds with a 125 to 150 norm and thick bush of 25 to maybe 125 yds with the most around 60 to 75 yds...

We also go for archery and blackpowder seasons and use 50# bows and .50 or .54 round balls or sabots in the in-line guns that some of the relatives are using now...

We are meat hunters and will take a large doe, preferably, if allowed in that area over any buck--better tasting meat...I have been deer hunting since 1959/60 and my first deer was with a borrowed, open sighted .303 from one of my uncles and shot at around 125 yds away standing almost broadside in my grandfather's grain field (which I now own)...