Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Single Shots Who's been hunting so far this season - with a single shot?

Have been out a couple of times for bear already. No luck. Had the .375 H&H Number One along. A few weeks back I checked the zero by whacking a rockchuck with a 300 gr Sierra SPBT. That worked... Suspect that it's up to hitting a bear again, if I can find one and take the shot!







Hmmm. Not a bear. The doe seemed lonely and stuck around for a while as I glassed for bear.


Best of luck to the hunters this season!

Regards, Guy

Guy, cool pics! Been doing some squirrel hunting. Got 8 so far with my H&R Sportster, single shot .22. Will deer hunt this fall with my CVA Scout .44 mag single shot.


maddog

You gotta get another nice bear with JBs rifle!!

Keep at it! Cool pix....

If eliminating feral cats at the farm is hunting then I have. Ruger No. 1 in .223 AI. I have two deer licenses for rifle season this year and will be using a Browning 1885 .25-06.

No season open here yet, but have busted a couple crows and a coyote with my 1-V 220 Swift.

Will hunt my old 45-120 C Sharps this fall too.

Gunner

I will probably take the .30-40 #1 for the deer opener this year, in two months...Although maybe the Princess will go with 53 TSX, too.

My dad uses a h&r ultra slug 3 1/2" 20 gauge for deer. Loves it had a 12 gauge he used for a couple years also.

I'll have my No. 1 in 45-70 out this November for deer.

cmg - what cartridge for that Number One in the photo?

Glad to see that some of us are hauling our Number One rifles afield. Pretty cool.

6 mm Remington - 80 gr. TTSX @ 3450 fps from the 26 " barrel of the 1B configuration.

Leupold 4x M8 scope

That rifle goes afield a lot with me on roe deer hunts.

Thanks for starting this thread. I enjoy seeing these No. 1 in the field as well.

No bears here - just wild boar. Hunting regs call for 6,5 mm and bigger though, so that 6 mm is grounded :-(

cmg - I'm a long-time fan of the 6mm Rem. Got one in 1974 and my youngest son still uses it regularly for varmints & deer. It's a bolt action Remington though. Sweet shooting little cartridge.

Thanks for the info. That's a nice photo of your rifle & deer.

CMG, where in Europe are you? I bought a No. 1 in Germany a few years back.

Two tags as well this jyear. If I get out which is probable first will be with my 1A 303 and second RSI 7x57. Not until Oct.

The season here is still a couple of months out. When it does arrive, I plan to carry my 1A in 6.5x55. It's past time to give that rifle a go. Probably with a 120gr, perhaps a 100gr this is yet to be decided.


Thanks for the thread, it is a good one.

My 9.3x74R and .338 Win Mag are going to elk camp again this year--seven weeks to go!

I could not help but admire the No 1's shown here on the campfire.

Where I live down here in Australia I am fortunate enough to have enough land to go for 30 minute stalk at dusk or dawn and get a chance to run into foxes, wild dogs or feral pigs or "hogs", & can do it all year round.

Larger (meaning older) hogs are extremely alert, never stay still for more than a second or two, and are difficult to stalk. Generally there will only be the opportunity for one shot.

I recently purchased a used 300H&H, the first No 1 I have owned.

They are great rifles!




I have loaded up some 165 NBT's, this is three sighting shots @ 55 meters, the rifle shoots nicely, better than I can. Some recoil off the bench...

So far one hog taken last weekend




Good Hunting Guys!

Just this back in June:



Gun deer season doesn't open here for another two-and-a-half months, so it'll be the odd hog or coyote until then. Or loose housecat. (Though black powder deer starts near the end of October.)

Did it say "feral" on their collars??

Anyway, if things work out for me, it will be 2nd week of November with a new to me Merkel K-1 in .308 Win.

If the weather isn't cooperating, raining, snowing etc., then it will be my 6.5 Swede Sako bolt gun.

Been out several times this year with the birthday present my dad gave me at 15 (14 1/2 years ago), a Savage 112 BVSS-S in .220 Swift. It has about 2000 rounds down the tube now but it still shoots 5 rounds of it's favorite load into a 1/2" (37gr. of IMR-4064 and just about any 52gr. bullet I can load).

Nick