whats your best caliber/gun for hunting deer this year?
i bought mine in encore with a 16 1/4 MGM barrel with a high plains custom gunstock( its a rifle).
recoil is nothing to worry about, a 243 it seems like. i have had a stroke, so my right side is about 15-20% good, so i can tell ,wink,wink
120 amaxs with a charge of imr4350 makes it .3" at 100yds and next week i'm planning on using it for deer with a 120 ballistic tip with some superperformace behind it
Same here. A few of us decided that for this year, each deer has to be taken with a different gun, rifle or pistol. Still wont be able to get thru them, but at least it'll put some more fun in it. My favorite would have to be the Rem 700 .308.
Got a ten pt. opening morning with the DPMS .308 Lite Hunter. Have used the Stag 3G with 62gr. Barnes TS last. My great nephew using my TC Icon in 6.5 Creedmore and he has killed two deer and a coyote. I really want one with my 1911. Good luck to all, and be safe.
I have used a custom Beowulf .50 cal for the last 5 years.
Drops them where they stand.
I shoot a 300 gr. FTX.(loaded by JLA).
I can shoot out to above 200 yards(don't have that long of a shoot)down to 5 feet and NOT change ammo.
Mike
This is my first year to hunt with a magnum. I picked up a Browning A bolt Medallion for parts from a customer in .300 WM, decided upon disassembly that it was in good shape so I brought it back to hunting capability. First scope was insufficient for my requirements so I sent it back. Waiting on the next scope to arrive. Maybe ill be able to take a doe or 2 toward the end of the season with it.
Pretty much what Hawg said. I decided to hunt two days with each of the rifles I had not taken a deer with but the season is too short. I'll admit that as I've gotten older I've become much more of a shooter than hunter. I didn't spend a lot of time on stand, bores me to tears, but there was several days worthy of stalking through the woods. So far nothing has come home and the season ends tomorrow...but it's been a lot of fun hunting with my different rifles.
I decided to give my Swedes a break this year...for the last decade I've been pretty solidly hooked on the 6.5x55 with 140gr bullets.
This year I used my 77MkII .25-06 instead. 100gr Barnes TSX pushed by H4831. I've owned this rifle since 1994 and it has only shot 3 deer. It was due time for it to shine again.
That new .243 Encore oughtta to work just fine. I've used both .243 and 6mmRem on deer for several years. I stuck with the "old standard" deer load weight in both calibers...100gr Winchester SP. They were cheap to load and they worked fine on the critters.
while I am a fan of new - improved - wildcat - proprietary cartridges...
and new platforms using the latest technology and design cues...
the .30-.30 WCF cartridge in a lever action rifle has killed more deer that all other cartridges and firearms platforms combined by an order of magnitude...
the older cartridges (especially older military cartridges) usually are fine for deer...
while I am a fan of new - improved - wildcat - proprietary cartridges...
and new platforms using the latest technology and design cues...
the .30-.30 WCF cartridge in a lever action rifle has killed more deer that all other cartridges and firearms platforms combined by an order of magnitude...
the older cartridges (especially older military cartridges) usually are fine for deer...
while I am a fan of new - improved - wildcat - proprietary cartridges...
and new platforms using the latest technology and design cues...
the .30-.30 WCF cartridge in a lever action rifle has killed more deer that all other cartridges and firearms platforms combined by an order of magnitude...
the older cartridges (especially older military cartridges) usually are fine for deer...
My wife has decided that she wants a Henry .30-.30. She's not a hunter and I've not seen her fire any rifle; but her mind is made up. I won't stand in her way.
I won't bother to list all the guns/calibers I own that are suitable for taking deer sized game. My go to favorite is a Remington 700 varmit SF in .308.
Open country and possable long shots my "smithed" rem.700 t-hole laminated stock scoped out with a Bushnelll Elite65 in .30-06. For the bush a marlin 30-30 lever open sights or a open apputure sight (weaver........maybe)
while I am a fan of new - improved - wildcat - proprietary cartridges...
and new platforms using the latest technology and design cues...
the .30-.30 WCF cartridge in a lever action rifle has killed more deer that all other cartridges and firearms platforms combined by an order of magnitude...
the older cartridges (especially older military cartridges) usually are fine for deer...
Of the 5 or 6 rifles I used this year the newest cartridge of the lot was still from before WWI and the oldest were two BP cartridges from the 1870's. All but two were proprietary and are obsolete and have been since before "The Great War" I'll guarantee that any of them will kill a deer as handily as anything that came out after "The War to end all Wars".
It's really rather amusing to see that the most that has been done with cartridges in the last 100 years has basically been the reinventing of the wheel. No doubt propellants have improved....none whatsoever...and that makes for better velocities at lower pressures and one would have to suspect longer barrel life. Projectiles have improved for the velocities but on thin skinned game they don't kill one bit better than lead. On heavy game, the kind that can bite back, the Rigby solid has not been improved upon since again, before WWI. Cartridges such as the Newton and Brenneke proprietary series were 50 years ahead of the game and to this day they would make as good a cartridge as could be found. Look at all the cartridges based on the 375 H&H and the .404 Jeffry. Look up when those cartridges were introduced...to say nothing of the -06 or the 8 X 57.
Mr. Mike brought up a valid and more than correct point.
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