Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles 7mm08 versus 45/70 for deer

I experimented and shot 3 deer this year with a 7mm08 with 120 grain barnes x bullets at 2700 fps and all ran at least 50 yards (one about 100 yards) with good chest hits. There were no good blood trails as well. A couple of deer shot last year(one this year) with the 45/70 with 350 grain bullet at about 2100 fps all went less than 50 yards (some 0 yards). Big Bores slam the animals and when they do run(rare) what a blood trail to follow. I know it is not scientific but In thick parts of Alabama which is most of it, The 45/70 is King with less deer lost!! Thats my story and I am sticking to it

Sonny

why were you running them so slow??

It is a funny story,points awarded,for humor..............

Damn... 7/08 vs. .45-70...

Apples vs. oranges...

Hardly...............

What part of bama are you hunting. I am not big on 7-08 myself I think it is a great gun just not well suited for bama but the long shot does exsist in alabama that 45-70 going to sink like a rock

GPS coordinates,affect performance?

This might could get GOOD..................

Hey a 45-70 will buck brush...................grin

Less spin drift too,because velocity is more sedate................

Eskimos do not know anything about shooting through privets /sweetgumm saplings do they

Have Shot deer in thickets,swamps,and open.
A clear lane to get the bullet thru is king.

jc; you don't shoot THROUGH stuff often... through holes and gaps in it, yes, but not through the stuff.

BT/DT, and yeah, we know a bit about those things up here, too.

I guess I should keep this post to myself, but of the 10 or so deer I have shot with the 7/08, only one took a step after catching that little .284" sleeping pill. It was a 130 grain Speer HotCor, that was loaded on the mild side. Otherwise, they tend to look like someone jerked a rug out from under them.

I admit to having never shot a deer with a .45-70, and while I am sure it is a fine deer, hog and black bear slayer, I am also sure that the thickets in Alabama aren't a whole lot thicker than they are in Kentucky. Further, I doubt that the deer are on steroids or crystal meth down there.

If you are happy hunting with the .45-70, then keep at it, but I would never be afraid to shoot deer for deer with you. I will give you 20.00 every time one of mine runs, if you will do the same every time one of yours runs. First man to collect 100.00 wins.

yep but you know it is not always that simple im going to say clear lane with a 300 winny for back up is king

Id take a 7-08 hunting over a lead sled 45-70 in bama any day but neither is king

it is like comparing a porsche to a vw bug

Know nothing about the 7-08,X-bullets,Venison,nor brush.



Enlighten me,I'd like to learn about them things.............

LOOK LIKE GRAS TO ME LOLOL

What was your GPS coordinates on that moose? Probably wouldn't work in Kotzebue.........grin

standing in a cane break a 150 yards