Monochrome
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starting hunting in highschool with a remington 870 and a b square side saddle mount. Thing was crap, gave me a bad case of flinch since then. SIte in day was roughly 60 rounds of full power slugs because the barrel/scope mount were machined wrong. Working the slide would cause it to randomly wander off of zero. Got to go hunting with it twice. Not fun when at 70 yards, you see the slug hit dirt UNDER the deer.
Following year christmas brought me a muzzle loader. Hunted with it exclusively for about 10 years. Randomly loaned a 336 in 30-30 until i re zeroed it and harvested a 7 point.
Second year of muzzle loader came home from college for a weekend to find the 12 gauge had become a 870 express 20 gauge 3" with factory scope. Accurate as can be, just pricy to shoot.
In college fell in love with black powder military surplus rifles. Ended up with a mosin nagant that was actually made in 1930 or 1931 based on barrel code. Dont shoot it much, beats the hell out of me. And life is life on that.
Have a Yugo 24/47 from the original 1924 production run. Rebarrelled curtesy of Yugoslavia. Do not shoot it much at all. The sights suck, and the stock is too short for me. To get a proper cheeck wield, i have to hold the butt plate away from my shoulder with an air gap. Yeah, recoils like the hind leg of a goat that doesnt want to get milked.
Have used .243 win on deer. Got 1 with it, hornady gmx. that was a half mile hike uphill in brush to track. Wouldnt use the caliber or ammunition again.
Have "access" to my nieces .223 in theory due to having kept it fed and cleaned for her for 12 years. But when i want to use it... no one can find it. Have been present when it was used on deer multiple times. Caliber is accurate, but I think 357 magnum in a snubnose could give better hunting ability.
Bought a miracle rifle for the old man, ruger 450 bushmaster. Crappy gun, crappy factory ammunition. At 49 yards, the bullet can just explode and leave a golf ball entrance and exit wound in the shoulder bone. At 51 yards, the bullet can just explode and not even create an exit hole. To damned noisy. Way to noisy.
Have my own .308 ruger american. It shoots, it works deer. Hate the federal solid copper ammunition. Havent got a deer with any other ammunition in it. Have a case of PPU milspec it shoots poa/poi at 100 yards. Aint changing a thing.
2 years ago, the old man "needed" a 12 guage semi auto so he could keep hunting. We get it sighted in after spending nearly 100$ in brenneke slugs, and once it needs to be cleaned he hands it to me with "merry christmas" and simply went back to using the bushmaster.
Its just that with all the "searching" people have forced on me, by association, the ideal cartridge has actually been the 30-30 with 150 grain bullet. Yet for myself, the unholy issue is that due to a previous arm injury, a lever action is a no go for myself.
SO bear along with what some may consider less then good threads
Following year christmas brought me a muzzle loader. Hunted with it exclusively for about 10 years. Randomly loaned a 336 in 30-30 until i re zeroed it and harvested a 7 point.
Second year of muzzle loader came home from college for a weekend to find the 12 gauge had become a 870 express 20 gauge 3" with factory scope. Accurate as can be, just pricy to shoot.
In college fell in love with black powder military surplus rifles. Ended up with a mosin nagant that was actually made in 1930 or 1931 based on barrel code. Dont shoot it much, beats the hell out of me. And life is life on that.
Have a Yugo 24/47 from the original 1924 production run. Rebarrelled curtesy of Yugoslavia. Do not shoot it much at all. The sights suck, and the stock is too short for me. To get a proper cheeck wield, i have to hold the butt plate away from my shoulder with an air gap. Yeah, recoils like the hind leg of a goat that doesnt want to get milked.
Have used .243 win on deer. Got 1 with it, hornady gmx. that was a half mile hike uphill in brush to track. Wouldnt use the caliber or ammunition again.
Have "access" to my nieces .223 in theory due to having kept it fed and cleaned for her for 12 years. But when i want to use it... no one can find it. Have been present when it was used on deer multiple times. Caliber is accurate, but I think 357 magnum in a snubnose could give better hunting ability.
Bought a miracle rifle for the old man, ruger 450 bushmaster. Crappy gun, crappy factory ammunition. At 49 yards, the bullet can just explode and leave a golf ball entrance and exit wound in the shoulder bone. At 51 yards, the bullet can just explode and not even create an exit hole. To damned noisy. Way to noisy.
Have my own .308 ruger american. It shoots, it works deer. Hate the federal solid copper ammunition. Havent got a deer with any other ammunition in it. Have a case of PPU milspec it shoots poa/poi at 100 yards. Aint changing a thing.
2 years ago, the old man "needed" a 12 guage semi auto so he could keep hunting. We get it sighted in after spending nearly 100$ in brenneke slugs, and once it needs to be cleaned he hands it to me with "merry christmas" and simply went back to using the bushmaster.
Its just that with all the "searching" people have forced on me, by association, the ideal cartridge has actually been the 30-30 with 150 grain bullet. Yet for myself, the unholy issue is that due to a previous arm injury, a lever action is a no go for myself.
SO bear along with what some may consider less then good threads