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know a guy here that killed a nilgia at almost 200 yrds with a 220 swift and the nilgia was running, one shot kill. He old game warden at Sarita his fav nilgai rifle was a Ruger #1 in 220 Swift!
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"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
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Well another dumbass here, but I gotta speak. Here in Michigan they now have youth deer seasons. I watch videos of children in their blinds, on daddy's lap, him helping hold gun , and helping them pull trigger. Used to be they had to be 14 to deer hunt. If a child isn't old or big enough to handle a gun- they shouldn't be. Oh yea, .223 plenty big. Not to change the subject but lots of three year olds kill huge deer around here on that youth weekend using a 7 mag.
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SEE good deeds never go unpunishhed I always wanted a job at WM selling guns on a 20 hour schedule instead of being a head machinist. I have seen the sideways scopes;, too. And the guy who was "good" enough that he could ignore the range flag. He left in a huff because I kicked him out.
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.223 is big enough, have killed a few FL deer (small) and several hogs with a .30 cal G.I. Carbine.
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.223 is big enough, have killed a few FL deer (small) and several hogs with a .30 cal G.I. Carbine. When I was in Jr. Hi. Our metal shop teacher's deer rifle was an old M1 carbine.
Founder Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
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I saw a guy once that deliberately mounted his scope 90 degrees out because the windage turret was in the way of ejecting cases. I helped him get it sighted in and he went away happy. He wasn't planning on playing with the sight-in any more, anyway.
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nifty-two-fifty; Good afternoon to you sir, I trust the Labour Day weekend has been going according to plan for you.
Your statement twigged a long forgotten memory with me in that we had to do the same way back when to get a buddy's bear rifle to eject the empties.
I want to say it was a Sako from that era - so 25-30 years back - and it was a .375 H&H with some type of Leupold straight tube scope in a lower set of rings.
Until we turned it about every third empty would nicely drop back into the feed path and the ones that didn't had dented case mouths too... at least I think it was the same rifle doing that....
Anyway I can't ever remember seeing that again, but we surely saw it once.
Thanks for the memory jog sir, all the best to you this fall and good luck on your hunts too.
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I have taken a mule deer with a 22 hornet at 240 yards. He was not nearly as smart and a dumbass.
Anything at 240 yards with a 22 hornet is reason enough to spruik to all and sundry...heck, I would drive into town and tell strangers of it. Good shooting. It was a one time thing. Deer was standing next to a rock I had been shooting squirrels off for three days. 10X Burris scope was dialled in. a bunch of deer came into the field and the woman who owned the field told me to shoot them. I told her August was not exactly deer season. She reached into her purse and came out with a stack agricultural kill tags. I was shooting a contender with a 14" barrel in 22 hornet with home swaged bullets. The deer presented me a great spine shot and I took it. It fell into it's own shadow. I do not recommend the hornet for deer but under the right conditions it will do the job.
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.223 is big enough, have killed a few FL deer (small) and several hogs with a .30 cal G.I. Carbine. When I was in Jr. Hi. Our metal shop teacher's deer rifle was an old M1 carbine. My grandpa is the one who got me into hunting - he used an M1 carbine for deer hunting (I still have it!). We were poor folks, didn't have a lots of guns to choose from - I used a single shot .410 with slugs for about my first 5yrs of deer hunting ('til I was old enough to mow folks yards and make enough to buy a pawnshop pump 12gauge and then used buckshot. I didn't have a rifle other than a .22 'til my senior year of college!).
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Not to change the subject but lots of three year olds kill huge deer around here on that youth weekend using a 7 mag.
I hope you're full of schidt on purpose. P
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Not to change the subject but lots of three year olds kill huge deer around here on that youth weekend using a 7 mag.
I hope you're full of schidt on purpose. P Party hunting with a twist. My three year old shoots a .223. Well...my three year old shoots a .300 WM
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Not to change the subject but lots of three year olds kill huge deer around here on that youth weekend using a 7 mag.
I hope you're full of schidt on purpose. P Nope, not at all. That is what their daddies proudly post on Facebook. Them three year olds are some fine shots and that weekend before the regular season opens is a great weekend to be out there.
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One of my favorites was guys coming in the store to ask for "bullet heads". Or sometimes "bullet tips". Usually an explanation was met with "Yeah well I call them bullet heads."
Another pet peeve of mine is "grain weight". Does your doctor talk to you about your "pound weight"? Not to mention the guys that refer to bullets as "pills". You even see that on gun boards, including this one. So what do you call Barnes' XLCs? Viagra?
Sometimes, the air you 'let in'matters less than the air you 'let out'.
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I saw a guy once that deliberately mounted his scope 90 degrees out because the windage turret was in the way of ejecting cases. I helped him get it sighted in and he went away happy. He wasn't planning on playing with the sight-in any more, anyway. Did that on a M788 to avoid drop-backs. Worked very well; helps to be somewhat spatially inclined for sighting in.
Sometimes, the air you 'let in'matters less than the air you 'let out'.
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Not to change the subject but lots of three year olds kill huge deer around here on that youth weekend using a 7 mag.
I hope you're full of schidt on purpose. P Nope, not at all. That is what their daddies proudly post on Facebook. Them three year olds are some fine shots and that weekend before the regular season opens is a great weekend to be out there. Roger. No offense intended. P
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In close woods or heavy Palmetto scrub you just can't beat the little M1 Carbine loaded with soft points for deer and hogs.
George Orwell was a Prophet, not a novelist. Read 1984 and then look around you!
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I saw a guy once that deliberately mounted his scope 90 degrees out because the windage turret was in the way of ejecting cases. I helped him get it sighted in and he went away happy. He wasn't planning on playing with the sight-in any more, anyway. BTDT it works very well...
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Not to change the subject but lots of three year olds kill huge deer around here on that youth weekend using a 7 mag.
I hope you're full of schidt on purpose. P Nope, not at all. That is what their daddies proudly post on Facebook. Them three year olds are some fine shots and that weekend before the regular season opens is a great weekend to be out there. Roger. No offense intended. P It probably happens. They said it did with my nephew on youth weekend. But he was 8 IIRC. He missed the first time too.. but everyone said dad had to have shot it. But it sure doesn't happen around here very much, the young ones that kill, I generally know and they hang out around the range and 4H shooting sports. Most folks are just sour that the kids get an early chance.
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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.223 is big enough, have killed a few FL deer (small) and several hogs with a .30 cal G.I. Carbine. When I was in Jr. Hi. Our metal shop teacher's deer rifle was an old M1 carbine. My grandpa is the one who got me into hunting - he used an M1 carbine for deer hunting (I still have it!). We were poor folks, didn't have a lots of guns to choose from - I used a single shot .410 with slugs for about my first 5yrs of deer hunting ('til I was old enough to mow folks yards and make enough to buy a pawnshop pump 12gauge and then used buckshot. I didn't have a rifle other than a .22 'til my senior year of college!). Very similar. .410 with slugs for a couple of years, then a 12 ga pump w/buckshot until I was 24.
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