Home Forums Hunting & Shooting General Big Game SS barrels spook game?

We sometimes give game too much credit for "knowing" the source of what we consider an unnatural thing. How is the glare from a SS barrel or glint off a scope lens any different to their eye than the glare off a snow bank or reflection of the sun off a pond. We may know it is a human source, I can't believe the animals do.

Woody

They don’t.

Jerry

IMO the reflection off the stock didn’t do that at long distance.
I had a Buck at LESS than 50 yds simply turn around & walked away from me.

How do you know the Buck ran from the reflection “at an amazing long distance” ?

Jerry

Only once. Stainless steel marlin guide gun. Light reflected off the shiny flat receiver and spooked a doe that was close in about 50 yards away.

A LITTLE REMINDER !




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The rifle is not pictured but it was the T 3 SS 270, in 2012




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I couldn't get the shine to dull enough on my Shilen barrel with Scotch-Brite or sandpaper to suit me so I sprayed it with Aluma-hyde ll.

I don't think this bull saw it.

No!

There’s a lot of stuff that could tip off game to my presence before the glare or refraction off my barrel ever would. The benefits of stainless far outweigh the negatives.

They catch you moving or if they are downwind of you, yeah - shiney stuff is bad.....

I've found movement and scent are the biggest reasons game spook (and noise of course). I have several of my field favorites that are bead blasted and chromed and never noted that game ever paid attention.

No.

Nope.

A friend of mine has a 25-06 Savage 110 made in the mid 1960s , that has a blued, SS barrel. It looks just like a blued barrel, but it is marked "Stainless" .