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

Kinda lucky live smack in the middle of moose country.7km from my door last year.Since I was off the tit moose was my first solid food.But as time passes I am really digging hard core deer hunting.As long as someone pops a meat moose I'm happy.Got lots of elk but the last bull was so gamey it was sausage stuffers.

The last four deer I killed with my puny little .250 Savage went a grand total of zero yards. I've killed deer with seventeen different calibers, funny thing is putting the bullet in the right spot has always worked regardless of what chambering was used. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Course we don't have thick woods or undergrowth in Georgia like our fellas from Alabama have <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Nothing I shot this past Season,via 223AI,took a single step.

Ranges from under 100yds to I think 486(shot him in the head).

Killing is as easy,as you want it to be................

Almost any rifle will kill quickly with correct bullet placement but when that bullet placement is a little off is when the big bores shine. They allow a LITTLE less perfection and usually leave a good blood trail to follow if needed . I know that many, myself included ,do not always hit them in just the right place. Hell, I even shoot at moving deer both running or walking from standing positions. This type of hunting seems to be frowned upon today. Everybody wants a standing broadside from a rested position or they think it is unsportsman like. This type of hunting was the norm a generation or so back, just read hunting books from the 50s and 60s. In my part of the country (Alabama) where the shots are mostly under 150 yards (less than 50 if you hunt in the woods much) this is a very relavent comparison. I have seen to many deer lost with small bores with less than perfect shots that leave little blood trail in very thick woods.

That's the kind of territory we have up here to hunt in. No such thing as an long range open field shot. We got swamps.
No 10x Binox needed, or big variable powered scopes. I settled on 4x scopes as best for our woods.

Don

Must be nice to hunt in a sparsely vegitated place like that picture. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

dogdoc, try shooting them in the head, they won't go as far........Blake

I love to hear from all these people is always shoot them in a perfect manner. It is when your shot is not perfect that big bores shine. I too have killed alot with perfect shots but I have also made less than perfect shots. Many make less than perfect bullet placement.

Sonny

where you from down here, doc?

This is not a slam,take it for what it's worth.
Get more trigger time.

DD, you are truly clueless..........Blake

Iffun ya can't make good boollitt placement,
DON'T pull da trigger!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />
Cain't be more simpler dan dat!!!!!!!!!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />


George

Geez Stick, That's just an Eatin' sized meese! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

They's ALL eating size,. Just more chewing in some'n others. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Eating size is the best size....

Only thing better is who shoots closer to
mechanized extract.

I got tell my wife this! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

My thoughts are , a lost animal is the only loss of meat that bothers me. Put 'er on the ground and you lost nothing.
I like shoulder shots.

I almost always see deer run after a double lunger.

They're on my "someday" list!
I'd be damn happy with an easily extracted eatin sized one! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

No matter how good you are shooting, anybody can ,on occasion, pull a shot. I see it every year in various groups I have hunted with. I do shoot alot but anybody can pull a shot, especially in a hunting situation.I shoot handgun competitively and definitely have pulled my share of shots in matches. It is not a perfect world that I live in so I do have a clue. My point about blood trails seems to have been lost.

Fish280,

I am down near Auburn and hunt Lee and surrounding counties. I do not get to go near as much as I like due to work
but go as much as I can. It is about time to start calling coyotes down here. I think I will even use a 7mm08 on them rather than my 45/70. War Eagle !!!

dd, you oughta get along fine with a couple of more heavy duty aubs here.

war eagle and roll tide.