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Cant have too much gun....The deer in North Central Kansas are large!

270wby, 7STW, 7WSM.

7STW is my go to gun in Kansas. Yes you can kill them with less gun but when the next deer could be a B&C, I want all the gun I can shoot.

So we shoot them with.......?

Deer are tuff in Kansas! Better take this:

n1unvk by Rick Mulhern, on Flickr

Guess I'd better retire my 6mm's. Didn't know that I was quite that close to not killing a deer.

Bob, you'd better get that 375 slicked up...

6.5: Looks like i better bring my Mashburn to Kansas.

Actually not a bad idea!

What's it take to kill a horse, that cannon...lol

IF you can get em between the eyes, horses, cows, BULLS, boars will EFFECTIVELY die from 22 LR.

Jerry

Not sure what they use now, but the local locker killed everything with a 22LR for years and may still be. I am sure a lot of white tails fell to them also.

Can't wait to learn what you'd tote to SK or AB.

That 6.5 you brought is about perfect Scott.

When I was a kid we butchered beef & hogs every year.

Every ONE of them died from a 22 SHORT between the eyes!

Jerry

Yeah.....elk are hard to kill too....
A 320" class elk won't fall to an
old fashioned non magnum

Woops

Somebody didn't get the memo

Even though it was a plain old vanilla 30

He was just fine with hitching a ride back to Missouri with me

I have seen an Alberta buck that would push 400 pounds pretty hard.

But I coulda put him in the dirt with a 270.

Yeah....the elk I killed last year just might have tipped the scales close to as heavy as those tough heavy deer

That right there is the stuff dreams are made of.

Hey Bob - How did y'all do the "double mirrors'?















JUST kidding!

Sound advice, especially when you're traveling from out of state and only have a few days to hunt. Large bodied deer that are full of testosterone can soak up a lot of lead before giving up the ghost. Cartridge choice is a personal matter but I've always figured that as long as I can handle the recoil, at the very least there's no disadvantage to using a bigger one.

No disrespect intended, but this "can't have too much gun" mentality for deer hunting just isn't true, even for Kansas. Just as in the "7mag for Brown Bear" thread, good bullets are the key, and most any bullet will kill the very biggest bodied whiteys or mule deer anywhere on the planet, including .243's an up.

I do believe a guy should use whatever super magnum he feels like using though, as long as he can shoot it accurately.