Sighted in, ready to go!
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Topic: Sighted in, ready to go!
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Subject: Sighted in, ready to go!
Date Posted: 09 November 2008 at 3:31pm
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Well, deer season opens up here next weekend. Last year, I picket up a Ruger M77 in 30.06 from a guy my father in law works with. It came with a 3x9 bushnell scope on it. Well, we went to the range last year to sight it in. My first set of rounds were astonishingly well grouped and petty well on at 75 yards. I didn't bother to tweak the scope at all. As it was, it was dead on. This afternoon I took it out for the first time since last season, and that sucker is still dead nuts on at 100 yards. I couldn't have been happier with my first set of groupings this afternoon, so I put it away and played with the garand for a while. Zero is off a little on that, but still close enough to hit what I was aiming at. So. Question for the deer hunters: What are you hunting with this season? ------------- ? |
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Posted By: Bounty
Date Posted: 09 November 2008 at 3:38pm
| My car, got one already |
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 09 November 2008 at 3:44pm
You know, I've never, ever tagged one with my car- I'm fortunate in that respect I guess. I watched my father hit one while I was following him once. That was amusing. ------------- ? |
Bounty wrote:Posted By: pb125
Date Posted: 09 November 2008 at 4:25pm
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LETS GO KILL THINGS FOR FUN
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Posted By: mbro
Date Posted: 09 November 2008 at 4:26pm
I can't go this year  I had to haggle away my opening weekend days off in order to get off to run a half marathon.
Oh well, there's always next year. ------------- 
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Posted By: ANARCHY_SCOUT
Date Posted: 09 November 2008 at 4:41pm
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Winchester .270, I'm going to be using 150 grain this year. ------------- Gamertag: Kataklysm999 
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Posted By: ammolord
Date Posted: 09 November 2008 at 5:52pm
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7mm ------------- PSN Tag: AmmoLord XBL: xXAmmoLordXx ~Minister of Tinkering With Things That Go "BOOM!"(AKA Minister of Munitions)~ |
Posted By: Gatyr
Date Posted: 09 November 2008 at 6:13pm
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MG-42
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Posted By: Yomillio
Date Posted: 09 November 2008 at 6:20pm
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.50 Cal ------------- 
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Posted By: TheDude
Date Posted: 09 November 2008 at 7:11pm
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Hand Grenades
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Posted By: rednekk98
Date Posted: 09 November 2008 at 7:16pm
| I may leave the 20 ga 870 home this year and try to get one with grandpa's model 12. If I have no luck in shotgun season, TC Hawken .50 |
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 09 November 2008 at 7:19pm
I think its cute when you try to be condescending and end up looking like a dope. Carry on child. ------------- ? |
Posted By: Gator Taco
Date Posted: 09 November 2008 at 7:23pm
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My bear hands.
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Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 09 November 2008 at 7:26pm
 Now that's badass. ------------- ? |
Posted By: sinisterNorth
Date Posted: 09 November 2008 at 8:14pm
| Gross Anatomy is preventing me from hunting this year, but I would be using my old Savage Arms .30-30. |
Posted By: Project Irene
Date Posted: 09 November 2008 at 8:45pm
| I mostly hunt with my Remington 710 in 30x06. But I want to take deer with my AR and moist nugget this year too. I got lucky on my $70 online nugget, 3 inch groups at 100 yards, 7 inch at 200. Putting rounds through a pie plate at 200 yards with an 83 year old gun does something to me. |
Posted By: Ford
Date Posted: 09 November 2008 at 8:58pm
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Scoped Mossberg 500 pump 12GA
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Posted By: Skillet42565
Date Posted: 09 November 2008 at 9:13pm
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I don't hunt with it anymore, I target shoot with it though. Savage .25-06 with a Tasco scope on it. Good little cheap gun. I really prefer the Tasco to my Bushnell scope. ------------- 
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Posted By: pb125
Date Posted: 09 November 2008 at 9:43pm
NO UR CUTE. LOL DOPE -------------
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Posted By: ParielIsBack
Date Posted: 09 November 2008 at 9:46pm
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Well, I would be hunting with my M1 Abrams, but the government has some sort of strange ban on hunting with tanks.
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Posted By: DaveEllis
Date Posted: 09 November 2008 at 10:32pm
If you eat meat, then you should be perfectly comfortable with the concept and have the ability to hunt. |
Posted By: Shub
Date Posted: 09 November 2008 at 10:38pm
| I haven't hunted for several years, but I still love to shoot my old deer rifle. It was my grandfather's gun, and I inherited it. It's a Winchester Model 88 lever action rifle, in .243. However, if you are unfamiliar with the Model 88, don't picture your classic Winchester lever action (Model 94, in .30-30). This gun shares more in common with a bolt-action rifle than most lever guns. Details for the curious http://www.gunsandammomag.com/cs/Satellite/IMO_GA/Story_C/The+Winchester+Model+88 - here . |
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 09 November 2008 at 10:40pm
Especially since the deer stand a better chance than the cow who is destined to catch a sledge hammer between the eyes. ------------- ? |
Posted By: usafpilot07
Date Posted: 09 November 2008 at 11:46pm
 Roughly the same thing as mine, though mine is a darker finish. It's one of my two 30-06s, though probably my lesser favorite of the two. Both have Bushnells on them. ------------- Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo |
Posted By: Brian Fellows
Date Posted: 10 November 2008 at 3:09am
| I should replace my bowstring one of these days. |
Posted By: FreeEnterprise
Date Posted: 10 November 2008 at 8:03am
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I use my .68 caliper... Second story down... http://www.familymanweb.com/article/big-bucks-and-bigger-stories - http://www.familymanweb.com/article/big-bucks-and-bigger-sto ries ------------- They tremble at my name... 
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Posted By: AoSpades
Date Posted: 10 November 2008 at 8:39am
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Went bow hunting with my recurve, unsuccessful.
Have a 30-30 that was handed down to me by my grandfather that i've taken 2 eight points with. -------------  |
Posted By: Skillet42565
Date Posted: 10 November 2008 at 8:47am
Very nice gun. -------------
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Posted By: adrenalinejunky
Date Posted: 10 November 2008 at 9:37am
the rotor for that thing must be tiny. :) |
Posted By: gh0st
Date Posted: 10 November 2008 at 10:58am
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I've been using a Weatherby Vanguard model
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Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 10 November 2008 at 11:09am
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I've actually never been hunting. Weird, given that two
of my uncles shoot a lot of their own food, mostly deer. Hunting for sport doesn't hold much appeal to me, yet there's still the primeval part of me that wants to give it a try, if only so I can incorporate that new skill set into my zombie plan. ------------- "Abortion is not "choice" in America. It is forced and the democrats are behind it, with the goal of eugenics at its foundation." -FreeEnterprise, 21 April 2011. Yup, he actually said that. |
Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 10 November 2008 at 11:37am
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I used to hunt when I was younger, but don't really anymore. I never really got into it. My dad asked me yesterday if I was going with him to Michigan for deer season. I declined.
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Posted By: FreeEnterprise
Date Posted: 10 November 2008 at 11:47am
I loled! ------------- They tremble at my name...
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Posted By: Mehs
Date Posted: 10 November 2008 at 3:02pm
Old Winchester Model 94, I missed one this weekend though because it was already walking back into the woods when I snuck up on it. Terrible weekend to hunt, too cold and snowing 24/7 so they all were hiding in the woods :( There is no safety really....sort of unsafe but it shoots pretty decently! ------------- [IMG]http://i27.tinypic.com/1538fbc.jpg"> Squeeze Box ☣ |
Posted By: Project Irene
Date Posted: 10 November 2008 at 3:15pm
| I LOVE old 94's. I'll get one eventually. |
Posted By: Kayback
Date Posted: 10 November 2008 at 3:18pm
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How is that unsafe? Don't chamber a round till you need to, then keep your finger off the trigger.
This summer sees me taking to the field with a custom double .375 Holland and Holland. KBK |
Posted By: proteus316
Date Posted: 10 November 2008 at 3:25pm
| The safety is on the hammer. You half cock until ready to shoot then fully pull down the hammer. |
Posted By: Mehs
Date Posted: 10 November 2008 at 3:47pm
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Just can be unsafe when unloading the gun, which you have to keep using the lever over and over, putting the hammer into firing position, of course it's easy to pay attention to that and make sure it doesn't go off, but I hate unloading it every time...
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Posted By: Kayback
Date Posted: 10 November 2008 at 3:55pm
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Hell I hadn't thought of that. I habitually shoot my lever actions dry.
Good point. KBK |
Posted By: *Stealth*
Date Posted: 10 November 2008 at 9:22pm
How's that going for you? We're just wrapping up the digestive system (We've passed all the difficult crap)... Nothing like smelling that Fermalidhide (s/p) and working with the corpse every other day ;) ------------- |
Posted By: sinisterNorth
Date Posted: 10 November 2008 at 10:36pm
The digestive system was one of the first things we covered. We're currently dissecting the neck/back and upper extremities. However, next week we begin dissection of pelvis and lower extremities. Should be fun. |