UC chat
- Thread starter Trollhole
- Start date
This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate
links, including eBay, Amazon, Skimlinks, and others.
Holy lawd!
Are you expecting a Kodiak bear to come charging out of the woods???
Sure sounds that way, huh!
That is my deer rifle. While the bullet is large it is slow, which = less destruction of edible meat while still leaving a large primary wound channel = the deer doesn't run very far and still leaves a very obvious blood trail. I've probably taken about a dozen deer with that gun and the longest run was maybe 60 yards and that is stretching it. The blood trail is huge - you are not following droplets of blood but rather a literal trail. The last few I've just walked in the direction the deer ran and I walked right into it - literally once at dusk.
My previous deer rifles, which I still have, were your standard 30-06, 308, and 270 variety. Using higher end rounds forced an expansive secondary wound channel which ruined the shoulder meat no matter if I tucked the round just behind the shoulders or not. I like to go for a combo heat/lung shot. I could have gone for neck shots but necks move too much. I tried lower end, more traditional loads and there was less of a secondary wound channel but the deer would run up to a couple to few hundred yards which = a much longer drag back through the woods. I'm lazy, I need a short retrieval. The land I hunt on is only about 60 acres, so a long run could string me onto a neighbor's property which means I have to contact them first before I trail a deer on their property.
Now my new deer gun I haven't been able to try out yet is an Armalite AR10 in 308.
- Thread starter
- #4,104
What I want to know is if it uses AA or AAA batteries.
What I want to know is if it uses AA or AAA batteries.
9 volt baby!
for the Red Dot?
Red dot would use those flat watch type batteries.
If you were a better shot you wouldn't need such a large bullet....
Nope. My halo sight on my AR15 uses regular ole AAs.
ETA - I don't know what in the heck Troll was talking about.
You haven't ever been to the range with me big boy. I hunt with a 65 gr .223 too. I can hit my target.
I would suggest a meeting to shoot if ammo was not made out of gold right now!
The start of dinner. The buffalo gun 45-70 takes credit for these loins.
Is it legal to hunt with .223 in SC? .270 is the smallest you can use up here for big game...
Needs to be centerfire. That's it.
You haven't ever been to the range with me big boy. I hunt with a 65 gr .223 too. I can hit my target.
It's alot more challenging when there shooting back.FYI
This one is for you crick!!
....................../´¯/)
....................,/¯../
.................../..../
............./´¯/'...'/´¯¯`·¸
........../'/.../..../......./¨¯\
........('(...´...´.... ¯~/'...')
.........\.................'...../
..........''...\.......... _.·´
............\..............(
....................../´¯/)
....................,/¯../
.................../..../
............./´¯/'...'/´¯¯`·¸
........../'/.../..../......./¨¯\
........('(...´...´.... ¯~/'...')
.........\.................'...../
..........''...\.......... _.·´
............\..............(
It's alot more challenging when there shooting back.FYI
You have a point. I have no come back for that.
any WD fans?
Walking Dead? Love it but since I have worked almost every sunday the last 12 to 18 months I am out of the loop.
Let the garden begin!