What are you!?! His wife?!? Come-on man... He's got enough gun to take anything on the North American continent but I couldn't in good conscience ever say anyone doesn't need another rifle...
I have never hunted. But may start, but have no real rifle to do so..
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I've spent the last few hunting seasons hunting with a Winchester 94 in .30-30. A 150 grain bullet will have a nice entrance hole and a 1 1/2" exit crushing rib bones along the way..... I'm not sure the deer will consider that irrelevant.
Learn to shoot it at the distances you'll be hunting.
I use a Williams Peep Sight with a brass front bead and can group about a large fist at 100 yards with it. The only problem with that setup is you lose about 15 minutes of hunting at dusk and dawn as a scope collects light better. Deer are often out at those times, but you often have other chances for deer if you are still.
Iron sight lever guns are a nice light weight woods package with plenty of power.
Learn to shoot it at the distances you'll be hunting.
I use a Williams Peep Sight with a brass front bead and can group about a large fist at 100 yards with it. The only problem with that setup is you lose about 15 minutes of hunting at dusk and dawn as a scope collects light better. Deer are often out at those times, but you often have other chances for deer if you are still.
Iron sight lever guns are a nice light weight woods package with plenty of power.
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Gator 45/70
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30/30,308,30.06 all can use the same projectile, The .243 is no slouch like you said, I've killed a couple of bucks with one!
Request Dust Off
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Ballistic tip may or may not be a hunting bullet. The tip could be to help expansion and clean up the BC in a hunting round or just to help BC on a target round. Sounds like you get it though.
Rifle & caliber choice could depend on some other factors like if you can go on an elk or mule deer in the future. Or even what you have to travel through.
My brother went to a Weatherby Vanguard in .243 and he loves in in every way.
TheBigRServices
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what about the centerfire thing??? or did it used to be legal?
tallwalker
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Personally, I'd be proud to hunt with that rifle. Don't know what all the fuss is about. Anybody can show up at deer camp with the latest super nardo plastic rifle. There's a lot to be said for going with a little tradition and history. When I'm not bow hunting I enjoy my flint lock more than anything else I've killed a deer with. My vote - go with what you've got and concentrate on the experience of hunting.
I have a 243 when I'm just looking to put meat on the table, but at this point in life, like you, I'd rather take something in the woods with some history like a Winchester 1876, Garand, 1903, or k98. When you hunt and collect there's no stopping point on new/old rifles until you decide you've had enough.
El Pozzinator
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i'm from PA. grew up hunting whitetail and black bear. 30-30 is still one of the most popular cartridges and incredibly effective at bringing down big northern whitetail and the mass / velocity of the round makes it a great brush gun. as was said above, i probably wound't try to push it much past 175-200 yards though. after that it's pretty much got the trajectory of a brick. that said, all the fancy-schmancy new calibers designed with these computer thingymajiggers have just mind-blowing ballistics and very manageable recoil. when i left up north, the 7mm RUM was "the" thing to get but it kicks like a rented mule in a rifle light enough to actually carry if you're actually "hunting" (as opposed to sitting in a tree stand "waiting").
my two cents a 30-06 and 308 are also great whitetail calibers but more geared at longer ranges like power lines or big fields. not that they won't get the job done though! that 1903 would be one heck of a piece but it's gonna beat you up humping it if you've got a good walk in to get to your spot. plus you'll have the walk out, hopefully dragging a big ol' lump of meat...
bottom line though whichever one you're most comfortable making a clean kill shot with, go ahead and take that puppy for a walk in the woods. have fun!
my two cents a 30-06 and 308 are also great whitetail calibers but more geared at longer ranges like power lines or big fields. not that they won't get the job done though! that 1903 would be one heck of a piece but it's gonna beat you up humping it if you've got a good walk in to get to your spot. plus you'll have the walk out, hopefully dragging a big ol' lump of meat...
bottom line though whichever one you're most comfortable making a clean kill shot with, go ahead and take that puppy for a walk in the woods. have fun!
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Depends on where you're hunting really as to which you should take, but everyone has already said that. Personally my marlin 336 in 30-30 is my go to over any other caliber I own, including .270 and 30-06. I think a lot of the poo poo it gets these days is mostly from kind of guys who hunt with 7win mags and have nothing over 100yd shots. It's done it's job dozens of times between 150-200yds for me just fine. I've had about 5 of them make it about 20 or 30 feet after a good chest shot, but they all had chests full of jello.
30-06 is a good round though that not many people use anymore because it's not a magnum round or the latest thing. But you can load a 30-06 in 110gr all the way to 250 grain, so that should cover everything from coyotes to grizzlys pretty good.
30-06 is a good round though that not many people use anymore because it's not a magnum round or the latest thing. But you can load a 30-06 in 110gr all the way to 250 grain, so that should cover everything from coyotes to grizzlys pretty good.
oppsImissed
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Nosler has a few balistic tip rounds designed for deer hunting.
What I ended up doing was made some 30-06 to what books say are good to go in Garand and 1903.
Used some Nolser Partition, some Ballistic Tipped Hunting, and AccuBond
Thinking the scope is good enough to hit a guy at 300, in WWII And use them on paper at Camp Perry. It should do good with Bambi.
Used some Nolser Partition, some Ballistic Tipped Hunting, and AccuBond
Thinking the scope is good enough to hit a guy at 300, in WWII And use them on paper at Camp Perry. It should do good with Bambi.
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