military surplus rifles

[45/70]

Anybody out there use there old military surplus

Rifles to hunt with.

I took one of mine up to Newcomb last yr.

And enjoyed standing deer watch from O Dark 30

Till 10:00 hrs. Plan on carrying another one this yr.

[Elmo]

What are you carrying?

[BigRed44]

I've taken my mosin nagant out a couple times in PA but never harvested a deer with it.  Plan to try again this year and might take out the .303 British sometime too.  I think it would be cool to take a deer with an older gun.

[ants]

Two guys that I hunt with use them. One is an old Mauser in 6.5 Swedish the other is an old Japanese Mil surp in 7.7mm. Both rifles are scoped and they both flatten deer.

[NeverSeenNorHeard]

Two guys that I hunt with use them. One is an old Mauser in 6.5 Swedish the other is an old Japanese Mil surp in 7.7mm. Both rifles are scoped and they both flatten deer.

 

The 6.5 x 55 is a fantastic cartridge!

[45/70]

Thanks for the posts.

Last yr I used my yugo M 24/47 8mm. This yr I mite take a Enfield that has been sporterised but still has the iron sites

[45/70]

I have been shooting about once a week with the Enfield and up to about 80 yds. I am pretty sure I can make toast of a deer

With the iron sites

[Pygmy]

I usually carry my M1 Garand several days during NY season..I can't use it in PA because semi autos aren't allowed there . I shot a doe with it several years ago in NY , the only shot opportunity I have had while carrying it. It has issue peep sights. It ( the receiver) is 1943 vintage ( WWII), and I really enjoy carrying it, as a piece of history.

I carried my K98k German Mauser (8MM) in PA a couple of times, but never had a shot with it..

I have a 1944 Long Branch SMLE .303 that is a very good shooter, and I have thought about taking it deer hunting, but it is currently on display at the local American Legion post.

Edited August 14, 2015 by Pygmy

[45/70]

I just brought back a longbranch that someone had sporterised ..its all back to the way it was when a service man carryed it on the field.

This one is a great shooter as well. Its a mix master of parts but it looks like it should. . I will be hitting all the gun show's this fall looking for the correct parts .so I can make it as close as I can.

[45/70]

Going to try and post a pic.

This was last yr after I was releaved from deer watch. I opened my MRE for lunch.

[ants]

The 6.5 x 55 is a fantastic cartridge!

Oh yeah… He has taken some good bucks with it. One year he drilled one that was walking along a hedge row, well over 200 yds. out. The deer didn't go 20 yards. I don't know what load he shoots but he hand loads, and what ever it is it works very well.

[Pygmy]

On my last Alaska caribou hunt in 2001, one of my partners used a 6.5 x 55...He killed two caribou with it, no problem...One was about 300 yards, the other about 200...

[45/70]

The 6.5+55 is a good round hornady loads a 129 gr. A 140 gr. And I think they have a 160 gr.

Or they did have , my reloading book says.

[HuntOrBeHunted]

I don't use mine for hunting. I have a mosin nagant. I could and would use it if I had to. I just have other rifles i'd much rather carry.

[45/70]

I really enjoy taking them out on a hunt, even if its just for a few hrs.

[sailinghudson25]

I bring out a SKS from time to time with a lyman 66 peep sight on it.  I have no problems hitting a 8 inch gong at 200 yards with it.  However, I limit myself to 100 yards with irons and 150 yards with a scoped rifle for whitetails.  It just makes an ethical shot that much easier.   I reload 123gr hornady soft points, CCI #34 primers, and reloader 15 or H4198.  I mostly reload with privy partisan brass, but also reload with Remington brass too on that gun.

 

Sold a Czech mauser, that would of made a great hunter too.  I just wasn't using it enough to keep it.

 

I was gathering parts for a 458 socom AR for hunting the Adirondacks.   All I have left of that project is the eotech 512 sight.

[45/70]

I just won a bid on another 30/40 krag this one somebody had it drill an taped for a scope , I just mite scope this one out and go hunting with it.

[Mr VJP]

My first deer rifle was a 7.7 Jap Arisaka, that was sporterized with a scope, Fajen stock and barrel cut to 24".  It shoots deer as well as any .30 caliber deer rifle with a velocity around 2400 fps.

 

I still have this rifle today.  I still take it deer hunting on occasion too.  I've found when loaded with good 150 grain bullets driven at 2500 fps, it is very effective on whitetail out to at least 200 yards, which is the farthest I've ever taken a deer with it.  I have no doubt it could take a deer at 300 yards if given the opportunity to prove itself.

[JimMac]

got one last yr with my mosin as in my profile icon

 

 

[45/70]

Thanks for the posts guys

[JimMac]

[45/70]

Very nice Jim well done carry on.

[ants]

Nicely done JimMac!!! and with a bare bones rifle too. I shot a stock Mosin years ago and it was surprisingly accurate.

[Pygmy]

I have a 1934 Moisin and it is very accurate also..It has been rearsenaled..Probably captured by the Finns in the 1939 winter war..Some of the rearsenaled Russian MNs were rebarreled by the Finns with Sako barrels...

[45/70]

Does the moisin load RN.. Bullets and spitzer bullets with out any trouble or does it prefer one.