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Lindsay, A piper or Cessna ! Are you out of your mind? Why todays' deer should you come puttering over them with a little high wing would undoubtedly leap from the ground and drag you out of the sky like a cat catching a flushing sparrow.

Nothing less than an A10 Warthog please. High wing monoplanes. Bah, humbug, totally inadequate for the fierce and wily deer of today.

We lost three hunters around here last season who were trying to use ultra lights. Didn't find anything of them but teeth, hair, eyeballs and blaze orange.

Of course if you are into nostalgia perhaps a Sky Raider could be used.


BCR

deer in all the deer family are changeing.lord help us when the elk and moose get wind.now the tactical rifle is a thing of the past.deer will have to be hunted with a small shoulder fired missle,perhaps a small warhead.god forbid lindsay that your using a 25/o6.man you are just asking for trouble.

A humvee mounted TOW (Tube launched Optically tracked Wire guided missile) fits perfectly with todays modern deer hunter.
First the humvee, if you live in the urban spawl of any metro area you know you need a hummer just to drive down any gravel road.
Second the Tow missile system is mounted on a high mobile platform, the hummer.
Third the TOW missile has an effective range of 3750 meters, with it 10x thermal sight. I understand that many masters of the ninja arts can make that shot with any old ultra mag, but for us mear mortals we need a TOW missile. now I would still want to utilize the warthog and with the vehicle mounted radio systems the "call for fire mission" has never been easier. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />Boggy. NZ's fighter defense is now in private hands, ie obsolete Warbirds, Spitfires Mustangs etc so we can't call in our A4 Skyhawks now to bring down a strike on these mutant deer. Our Reds and Elk are hybridising so we are shaking in our boots and wondering what they are planning next. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />A few hunters have reported that they were mobbed by a group of Fallow and had their rifles swiped. The Army is after them now, cos our police are to damned scared to go anywhere near the bush. Although I do feel under gunned with the .25-06 proper shot placement should help <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Lindsay, proper shot placement may or may not help. They are evolving armor plating too in case the word hasn't got down to your part of the world yet I wanted to warn you. If you look up a few posts you will see where Moonie mentioned Elk and Moose. Well, the Moose have done done it. I read it in the paper or saw it on one of the hunting and fishing shows on TV or somewhere. The mooses have evolved a way to make their antlers twirl! Since they live a lot around water it helps them in swimming. They get in the water and start them big old antlers whirling and just take off. They say it looks like the Robert E Lee going down river under a full head of steam.
They killed one the other day in Canada or Alaska or some other foreign country that showed evidence of developing bow chasers and torpedo tubes and when that happens Katie bar the door.


BCR

After reading this entire thread, I've decided NOT to hunt deer this year afterall. At least not with the bow or anything lighter than my '06.

Better to hook up with a feller I know, that has hunted whitetails on occasion, with his 375, 460 or 340 and stay behind him at all times. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

dube,

Well, I just got a new 338 RUM that I am itching to try out on deer !!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> (not really !!!)

I am thinking a 250 grain Nosler Partition gold @ 3000 might be enough eh !!!! Think I will get adequate penetration ??? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Jeesh, and I thought I was bad....460 Weatherby on whitetails, WOW !!!!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Tony.

Well, when you live and primarily hunt in PA, but own big nasties, sometimes you use 'em for whatever's handy. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

The guy has taken elk, moose and bears in far off places, (and a few caribou at long range with a 300 and 340 Wby), so he "needed" them things at one time or another.
Now and then he gets one out and thumps a deer with it back here in the home range.
I wasn't there to see it, but he spun a doe clean around a sapling one year, with the 375 H&H. A bud that was there, said it's still a favorite mental image.

About ten years ago he had one of his LR "varminters" set up in a lean-to during our deer season, expecting to kill a deer out to 1000yds from his usual set up. A small buck came out of the brush at the end of the field he was above, so he gave the shot to another guy hanging out in the lean-to. The guy couldn't get his eye on the deer as it crossed through the fencerow into another field, so the bud hopped out and killed it at about 200yds with his "back up gun", a 460 Wby. The farmer whose land they were on, still gets worked up tellin' about that one. He was sitting in the lean-to guzzlin' coffee at the time. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

everyone just remmember to be carefull and watch your six.i believe i am going to lay off of the scents this year,theres nothing worse than a sex crazed indistructable deer charging you.the moose with rotating antlers just makes me shudder in fear. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Moonie you are being wise to lay off the scents. In addition to all the other evolving deer are doing some of them have developed olifactory nerves so's they can smell things half a mile off downwind. That's the reason for all the scent lock hunting duds now. Sometimes though even they aren't enough. You get them doe in heat scents mixed up with today's highly evolved bucks and no telling what may happen.

Just last year they found a guy wandering around in a daze. Had been missing for three days and when they found his rifle it had been bitten in two. His realtree coat had been ripped off his back and his scent lock pants was down around his ankles. His blaze orange hat was pulled down over his eyes and all he could do was mumble about being held captive by an eight pointer. Poor feller had hoof tracks all up his back. They say it looked like he had wiped hisself with a roll of barb wire. Had to stay in the hospital for a week and I heard that he had to have an operation or something.

Better not wear them deer scents out of the house.

BCR

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And I thought I was doing something when I used a Model 70 in .458 to hunt deer with for a while. And people thought I was crazy. Just goes to show. But it was fun.