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My Dad told me when I was a kid that my 25-20 was too big for squirrels and too small for deer ........ but I have found that it is just right for pigs !!!
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Where the bullet goes has more to do with it than the bullet that goes there.
Clinging to guns & religion since 1959
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Awesome! Love to see them old guns killing something along with the semi older guys doing it. Very Cool. An old gun or gunner, just has to know their limitations! Great job by the gunner and the gun.
If your a leftist, whatever Donald Trump says or does, that pisses you off rest assured, I am a Happy Camper!
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Thats a Neat old rifle! 1 less Piggy Too!
Deer Camp! about as good as it gets!
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My grandfather gave me a '92 25-20 when I was 8 in 1951. I'd killed 3 blacktail "meat bucks" with it before I found out it was illegal for deer.... still have that one.
Also got a 180# wild boar with it, but that took 9 shots, some of them at about 2 feet distance--my dad's old stock dog and my beagle couldn't hold the critter still!
Was Mike Armstrong. Got logged off; couldn't log back on. RE-registered my old call sign, Mesa. FNG. Again. Mike Armstrong
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If remember correctly one of the famous record book bucks wad killed with a 25-20.
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Deadlines and commitments, what to leave in, what to leave out...
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I love my 25-20, use a Speer 75 gr. and 12 gr. of 4198. Very accurate, and a real killer load. Wish this rifle had been left to me by my granddaddy, Mesa is a lucky man. Someone wrote an article and gave all the loading data on this rifle. He said it was the rifle that everyone needed, they just didn't know it yet.
The story on the Jordan buck is really convoluted, as memory serves me, it was found about 3 days after it was shot. But those Wisconsin deer are alot larger than these little Texas whitetail.
Gonna try for the next pig with my 32-20 pistol. Hope it don't take 9 shots, cause all it holds is 6 !!!!!! Guess I'll have to post off-topic since its a Smith. Thanks for the nice remarks.
John
If you don't like Robert E. Lee, you won't like it on this ranch. JGM
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