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I moved from Pennsylvania where I could use my 308win to deer hunt but moved to Indiana where rifle hunting not allowed.
Would you guys keep it? Or send it down the road?
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If you like the rifle and it is a nice rifle then keep it. It will only go up in value unless it is something like a Savage Axis.
If you really need to sell it and get a slug gun or something , then sell it.
Hope you enjoy your new home but it would be a bummer not to be able to hunt with a rifle.
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You can still shoot it can't you? How about using it to call coyotes? Or is this not allowed?
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If you can afford to keep it and still have something to hunt with in IN, keep it. You never know when a chance to hunt somewhere else might pop up and a good rifle is a good thing to have around anyway, especially in something like .308 or .223. The Zombie Apocalypse could happen any day!
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If its your only rifle I would keep it. You can hunt in other states and a 308 is pretty good for most everything in the lower 48
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I would need to know what it is and what you feel it is worth before I could answer.
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Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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Yes, it can be used for coyote hunting.
A guy was telling me that calling/shooting coyotes up in the Lafayette area are typically long shoots, 500-600yards. Don't think the 223rem would have enough steam at that range to take coyote reliable?
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I moved from Pennsylvania where I could use my 308win to deer hunt but moved to Indiana where rifle hunting not allowed.
Would you guys keep it? Or send it down the road? Have a 358 Hooser barrel screwed on it and you can use it here in Indiana. http://ajbrownarms.com/services/358-hoosier/
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I would never sell a rifle unless I already had one of that caliber that I liked better.
I think you would regret selling it, unless there is something about it that you dont like. Every American (who isn't a liberal POS moron or psycho) should own and know how to operate at least one 30 caliber centerfire rifle.
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I would never sell a rifle unless I already had one of that caliber that I liked better.
I think you would regret selling it, unless there is something about it that you dont like. Every American (who isn't a liberal POS moron or psycho) should own and know how to operate at least one 30 caliber centerfire rifle. YES and you should be required to show it to vote!
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Several questions first. How old are you? Do you think you will never again venture outside of Indiana ? Do you have other rifles? Does it hold any good memories for you? Hopefully you can see where I'm going with this. I'd probably keep it and just get e a slug gun for Indiana or maybe a nice ML which I believe is legal there for both. Primitive and modern gun season.
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Me too.
But on my recent trip to D.C., I observed that the deer along I-70 in southern Ohio are taking a hell of a beating this spring. We were seeing about a dead doe per mile, but just one buck. Ohio has more deer than I figgered.
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Yes, it can be used for coyote hunting.
A guy was telling me that calling/shooting coyotes up in the Lafayette area are typically long shoots, 500-600yards. Don't think the 223rem would have enough steam at that range to take coyote reliable? That doesn't make sense, so I'd take that advice with a grain of salt. I've been calling and pounding coyotes with boring regularity for almost 40 years. Even in heavily called areas, yotes don't hold up at 500 to 600 yards. I think quite possibly the person giving you this advice doesn't know chit about calling coyotes. And FWIW, the 223 is perfectly adequate for coyotes at 300+ yards, unless you can't shoot, or you are using the wrong bullet/rifle. Lot's of people talk about consistently killing them past 300, but I'd bet they are not being entirely truthful with you. A coyote's kill zone is an extremely small target past about 300.
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Or, living in Indiana, doesn't know what 500-600 yards looks like?
I was popping recyclables here in Michigan at 250 and a truck load of guys stopped to ask what kind of canon I was using to reach out so far... 50 BMG? You shoulda seen the looks on their faces when I said naw, 223...
We flat landers just don't know how to judge distance.
I'd keep the 308, get a 358 Hoosier, and a 223.
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I moved from Pennsylvania where I could use my 308win to deer hunt but moved to Indiana where rifle hunting not allowed.
Would you guys keep it? Or send it down the road? I just moved from SD to a shot-gun only zone in MN :(, I probably have 15-20 different deer rifles. Don't think I'll be selling any, so certainly wouldn't sell just one. There will be a day where you'll be able to use it again for a big game hunt somewhere or other.
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There's a long list of stuff I sold because I wasn't' using it right then and now wish I still had. Now I try to think about it very hard before I let something go on a whim. Now, if I could manage to apply that to BUYING stuff, I could pay for that operation Grandma needs.
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Keep it unless it's eating too much food.
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leomort,
A good rule to live by: never sell a gun.
�If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.� ***US President James Madison***
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I'd keep the 308, get a 358 Hoosier, and a 223. Sound advice...
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