Sometimes I would like to pack my truck with all my rifle's and reloading supplies and head down to the border and control it my style.
All I lack is good night vision equipment and a good spotting scope.
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Sometimes I would like to pack my truck with all my rifle's and reloading supplies and head down to the border and control it my style.
All I lack is good night vision equipment and a good spotting scope.
Ahh the feds would come in and shoot yah in the back.
That is how it happens in our property, then we do a little more cleaning depending on what we have on the ground and how it would concealed deer from our shooting blinds. I have never seen it done but the club president (been in the club since it started about 28some years ago) told me they do some spraying and they use a shopper to trim some larger trees... I love to see that happening, but not while im am standing there!!! lol!
I have a old 10fp 308 I keep next to my back door that I like to sit on my back deck and shoot deer off my back food plot I have a 400 yard shot and I have a shooting bench set up with a nice rest I take about 4 or 5 a year like that drinking my coffee. But when I really hunt I like a short light rifle 99% of the time a little 243 savage that shoots so well I put that little pill right where it needs to be. But for anything over 300 yards I use my old FP or my 7mag custom heavy barrel. But I have killed them a fair poke with my supporters also. Its all in what you feel the most confidence in for the place you hunt. I think everyone should have a HB rifle just in case you sit a power line or have a chance to hunt wide open places. There is really something in knowing at 400+ yards you have the capabilities to put the slug threw his broiler room every time.
I would say it totally depends on your environment and style of hunting.
A heavy barreled gun not only is good for multiple shots which most hunters don't need. They are much easier to keep steady off a rest for long shots.
Here in the south we almost exclusively hunt tree stands. Everything from condos to climbers. If you are sitting in one of those condos you drive up to on a huge agricultural field a long range heavy barreled rifle is a good choice. If you are hunting thick bottom land out of a climber then a lightweight short barreled rifle is a good choice.
Out west with shot distances limited only by your ability but with lots of hiking thrown in I would pick a long skinny barreled rifle for the weight advantage. If you are not hiking but using horses or atv's I would pick the heavy barreled rifle.
Eastern woodlands spot and stalk. I would go lightweight short barrel. Most of your shots will be close anyway.
So there are many variables here. No one gun fits them all.
Cool! Lol
For me, I prefer a heavy barreled rifle. When shooting off hand while standing, I can hold the heavy barreled rifle steadier then a rifle with the light barrel. Something about the heavy barrel seems to help me stabilize the rifle shooting off hand.
Heavy barrel steady hold,, less kick also.
Why not change out the barrel for deer season after all it's a Savage
I do,, to my one shot, one kill barrel.
It's the Shaw Varmint .308
Deer hunt in the northeastern area of the state, mainly in the Tobyhanna area.
Don't take what I'm going to say personaly, because I can assure you thats not the intent. I wasent surprised by your answer,
in fact I had a premonition of what it would be. I was born in Philly, and at age 3 in 1938, my parents moved to Trevose in Bucks co.
About as close to Philly as its possible to get and still live in the suberbs. My father comuted to Philly to work at that time.
He was born in 1906, and had done very little deer hunting in his youth before marriage. Those who did hunt deer as a rule went from Philly by train in those days. During the depression years and the war years with gas rationing, very few people traveled very far to hunt.
However in 1946 after the war, he was taken by a friend to a place the guy had hunted as a young man in Lycoming county. The next year, 1947 I was 12 and went with them. We hunted there for about 5 years before moving still further north to where I still hunt. All the while being questioned by friends as to why we went as far as we did just to hunt deer. As you know, it was an all day trip to get from Trevose to Cameron co. in those days. Mind you ive known guys who would rather hunt Bucks county than anywhere. But your comment on the barrel was a give away question for me. If you've never been to the north central region of the state, and seen first hand the vastness of the area and the type of terrain it offers you should do so. Especially if you've not seen the elk up close and personal either. God willing I will be there by early July and will remain there till late Dec. The elk start bugeling as a rule by late August which is a thrill to hear if you've never done so. They could be as close as the front yard when they do all thru the night. Let me know if your interested. By the time you leave the answer for the barrel will be more understandable.
Depends on what you are use to. I started hunting when I wasnt even the double digits of age. I always carried a full size 223 R700 sps varmint rifle with a bipod. I got use to it. I killed many many deer with it. We use have unlimited antlerless permits here in MO and I might go through 15-25 deer a year.
Now I'm carrying a 17-18 pound 7mm SAUM. It took me the first week to get use to the weight but after that it was fine. I have a couple mile long route that I walk two or three times a season around the farm plus just everyday walking or checking fields. I hesitate to carry a 5000$ rifle in the combine with me so I don't take it then.
So really it just depends on what your use too and your strength level. I'm about 5' 10" and 190 lbs so I'm built somewhat stockier then some. Plus I'm young and dumb and don't know any better than to carry that much weight around.
Indeed it will. Cameron county Pennsylvania looks very much like Watauga County North Carolina where I was raised. Beautiful! Steep terrain, Laurel and Rhododendron thickets and long days afield will make a man wish he had a short barreled 2 pound rifle.Quote:
By the time you leave the answer for the barrel will be more understandable.
We get to soon old, and too late smart.
That's an old PA dutch expression, of which there are many.
Sit on one of those steep hills watching, as those (skilled individuals) on the opposite
side of the valley, unknowingly have deer make fools of them, might have you
wanting to trade that 2 pounder for a 20 pounder. lol