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In the market for a semi automatic rifle
steve863 replied to Deerthug's topic in Rifle and Gun Hunting
Wow, that's quite a turnaround! You went from wanting a magazine fed semi-auto to a tube fed lever action. I'm not a big fan of AR's OR lever actions, but I could see one having way more fun with a magazine fed semi-auto if putting lead down range is ones main objective. -
The DEC SWAT team should be there any minute now!
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Lawdwaz is the huntingny.com forum champion buck slayer. I've been here a few years and he puts a nice one down every season. Pretty impressive to say the least. I take my hat off to you, man!
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Wow, great job! There are taxidermists out there who claim to have years of experience who couldn't do a better job.
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In the market for a semi automatic rifle
steve863 replied to Deerthug's topic in Rifle and Gun Hunting
Dang, that's got to be the ugliest rifle I've ever seen. It looks like a vacuum cleaner if you set it down on it's buttstock. Maybe you can suck up the empty brass with it once you fire off a few dozen rounds? LOL -
So you'll be shooting if you see him again??
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Thanks for reminding me of that one. I swear, the only reason some of these clowns look forward to hunting season is to joy ride on their ATV's. A lot of them could give a crap about the hunting itself.
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These hunters aren't pissed, they are just the typical rural hunters without any teeth. So they won't be giving you a happy grin only to show off their dental deficiencies to the world. I'm surprised you didn't know this already!
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Grow does have a point. I guess we will never know how badly this deer was injured, but if there was ever a time a deer should have been given some extra attention and care it would be this incident. Just think for a minute of the odds for an injured deer or any animal for that matter to walk itself thru a hospital emergency room door?? It's astronomical! Whether it was some sort of divine intervention here or just a fluke, it is still quite an amazing story.
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Now if they would only do the same to uninsured humans that walk into hospital emergency rooms my health insurance premiums might not be as outrageous!!
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Hit by car deer/ what would you do ?
steve863 replied to turkeyfeathers's topic in General Chit Chat
The zinger of the month around here for sure! LOL -
Hit by car deer/ what would you do ?
steve863 replied to turkeyfeathers's topic in General Chit Chat
You are going scouting and you have no knife on you?? Moral of the story here for me is that it's better to have a knife on you or in your car instead of that .357. If you stab the deer or cut it's throat to put it out of it's misery, the DEC or trooper would have NO issue with you. If you shoot it with your handgun, you might have some explaining to do. -
But how do you get back up, if you repel down? Rock climb back up, or find a trail that goes back up to make it easier?
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So you repel down each morning? Then climb back up at the end of the day? Is there a trail back up, or is it a rock climb?
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That would be a gun WITH bullets and an arrow WITHOUT the bow??
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I've never considered myself much of a bowhunter when I did bowhunt, but I spined a buck once and then fired 3 more arrows into him while he was on the ground at about point blank range. He still kept kicking. Not until I threw a heavy log over his neck to anchor him to prevent him from goring me with his antlers and then stabbed him in the heart and lungs with my knife did he give up his ghost. Absolutely incredible the tenacity they could have and it showed me how ineffective an arrow could really be. One shot from even a .22 at close range and it would have been over.
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Hope you have something good cooking in that pot, Culver!! LOL
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Ethically it would be a good idea, but I could see people putting a deer down with a gun and then going over and putting an arrow thru it once it was dead to make it look like a bow kill that needed to be finished by a gun. Then again what would it matter? They want deer shot, right? What real difference does it make what weapon does the trick??
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Rifle Caliber- Which would you choose?
steve863 replied to pitweiler's topic in Rifle and Gun Hunting
Hell, I've considered the .243 at the bottom of the heap for even deer, let's not even begin to talk about Elk or Moose. Flame away, all you .243 aficionados! LOL -
And I would dare anyone to try some rapid fire shooting with the "accu-trigger" in hunting field shooting stances in comparison to a good, crisp traditional style trigger. It's NO contest. Not that one needs to make such shots often, but if you do, having that travel of that middle trigger blade before the gun goes off will screw up your accurate shot placement for sure!!
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Rifle Caliber- Which would you choose?
steve863 replied to pitweiler's topic in Rifle and Gun Hunting
I probably wouldn't choose any of the caliber you list for game slightly bigger than whitetail, most especially if you are talking about Elk or Moose. The .338 might be the best choice you list, but if you don't handload, there isn't much of a selection for you out there. Try finding a store that carries them, especially if you are in the middle of nowhere. I'd stick with proven cartridges like the .30-06 (which you already have, so why not use it?), or the 7MM mag, .300 Winchester or Weatherby Mags, or even the .338 Winchester Mag, which you'll have a much easier time finding ammo for than the .338RCM you listed. The calibers you list, besides the .338 are mostly on the low-end of the spectrum for game like Elk and Moose. -
Which Remington gun is made in a foreign country? I thought they are still manufactured in the US. I know they imported a few guns from Russia a few years back, but I don't think they do any more. I don't know any guns being manufactured in China that are being sold by top American manufacturers? Browning, Weatherby and Howa makes some in Japan, but none of those can be considered poor quality either. Winchester may have some made in Turkey, but in general most of the guns are still manufactured here.
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That's pretty much it. You can't expect a Mercedes for the price of a Kia. I think the cheap guns will kill a deer as dead as it needs to be, but you will not be getting it done with a gun that will win prizes for beauty. If you want something more fancy and smooth, you got to cough up some more money, period.
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Because the Remington's I've owned, be they of older vintage, have served me extremely well. I like the feel and function of the Remington 700 most especially. And so do tons of other hunter and target shooters. I am also old enough to realize, most especially in the hunting and shooting worlds, that you'll always have plenty of people who'll find things to bitch about no matter if the product deserves it or not. I have seen more than my share of hunters and shooters whose opinions I wouldn't give an ounce of credibility to. Plenty on this site alone.
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I often hear people touting their Savage rifles these days, but I'll still take a Remington 700 of ANY vintage over a Savage any day of the week. I'm not saying that Savages are not good or won't work, but I laugh when I hear people boasting about their "accutriggers" being the greatest thing since sliced bread. All these triggers are, are inexpensive substitutes to what a good trigger should be. Yeah, they will work, but if you compare an "accutrigger" to a good trigger of traditional design, there really is NO comparison. Competitive riflemen, snipers and serious hunters still prefer triggers of traditional design. Remington 700 triggers are pretty good and they are of traditional design. A trip to a competent gunsmith can make the 700's trigger second to none for very little money. No need for a second rate "accutrigger" like Savage, Ruger, Marlin and now even Remington on it's model 783 have adopted. So the moral here is that I'll stick with Remington and the Model 700 no matter how much folks complain about them.