**Official Hunting/Fishing Thread**

[PollyCranopolis 10+ year member]

I usually never get close enough to use a shotgun. Did all my hunting in WV, MD.

 

[mattf 5,000+ posts]

And call me a bumpkin, but I've never heard of anyone hunting deer with a shotgun. Noone in my family ever did. I guess you concieveably could, but I've never tried it.

Its kind of a regional thing. For example, the southern half of MN is shotgun only, while the northern half is rifle.

 

[PollyCranopolis 10+ year member]

I bet my Winchester 270 will do better than 3400fps with 100 grain. Fast as hell, deadly accurate. Beats my 308 by about 800+fps.

 

[mattf 5,000+ posts]

I bet my Winchester 270 will do better than 3400fps with 100 grain. Fast as hell, deadly accurate. Beats my 308 by about 800+fps.

With a 100 grain, then of course it will. But if you could also shoot 100 grain bullets out of your 308, they would be nearly as fast as the 270. What grain are you shooting in the 308?

 

[PollyCranopolis 10+ year member]

With a 100 grain, then of course it will. But if you could also shoot 100 grain bullets out of your 308, they would be nearly as fast as the 270. What grain are you shooting in the 308?

150, or 180. I see your point. Either one does drop velocity to around say 2700.

 

[Railrocker 10+ year member]

Heres a little ballistics lesson..
This is one of the best slugs for deer hunting..12 gauge.. 3"

This is the bullet I shoot in my high-powered rifle.. (.300 Winchester Short Magnum)

I think the slug lacks a little in energy //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif and a lot in velocity...

But don't get me wrong, I am not saying a slug isnt good for deer hunting... Within 100 yards it is plenty capable of dropping the largest bodied whitetail in its tracks.. All you gotta do is put it through both shoulders.. Id take a 3" slug anyday in close thick brush over a high-powered rifle shooting ballistic tips.. ballistic tips are a joke in brush. .Hit one limb, and that bullet is fragmenting..

I was just showing that the slug has no where near the "knockdown" power..

After seeing this I have to admit I was wrong on the knockdown power. I was looking everywhere for the energy ratings and couldnt find them. I think we just have two different hunting styles. I personally enjoy sitting up against a tree and waiting in a drawl. I dont need range, infact some of the shots Ive taken if I was using a high power with a scope I probably wouldnt have seen anything but brown. If I was to sit in the open or on a hill or something I would NEED a highpower.

 

[Railrocker 10+ year member]

Here's another interesting site, not very many high powered rifles but still interesting.

http://home.snafu.de/l.moeller/Zielwirkung/Frog.html

At the bottom it shows the penetration and cavity made from a slug.

 

[Railrocker 10+ year member]

This made me cry............ My wife hit this one with her car. But there are still at least two bucks on the land this one came from and I believe they are the same blood lines. Now if only they would let me hunt there //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crying.gif.ec0ebefe590df0251476573bc49e46d8.gif

These are really really bad pics cause I dont have a scanner.

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n119/eickmanns2001/April06048.jpg

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n119/eickmanns2001/April06047.jpg

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n119/eickmanns2001/April06046.jpg

Had 19 legal points one was a little under an inch.

 

[mattf 5,000+ posts]

Wow thats a damn nice deer.

 

[PollyCranopolis 10+ year member]

This made me cry............ My wife hit this one with her car. But there are still at least two bucks on the land this one came from and I believe they are the same blood lines. Now if only they would let me hunt there //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crying.gif.ec0ebefe590df0251476573bc49e46d8.gif
These are really really bad pics cause I dont have a scanner.

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n119/eickmanns2001/April06048.jpg

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n119/eickmanns2001/April06047.jpg

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n119/eickmanns2001/April06046.jpg

Had 19 legal points one was a little under an inch.

At least you got the rack. Like somone mentioned earlier, I guess the size of alot of these deer depends on the geographic location. Where in from in Petersburg, WV, large 10 point kills usually make the paper. Usually a little under 200 lb white tail. I'm not sure if it's way up north in Maine, or down in Florida, but in one of those 2 areas they have extremely small deer, no bigger than a large dog.

 

[mattf 5,000+ posts]

Here's another pic of the deer I posted before, that's my dad stannding next to it.

 

[Railrocker 10+ year member]

Yeah the deer down in arizona by my mom dont get very bid at all. All they have to eat is scrub brush. I dont think they would taste very good at all. I live in probably the best place in Kansas to hunt deer. Any where in the NE or N central part of the state is the best. We have an abundance of crops and cover. We have what we call prairie and timber bucks. The one in the picture is a timber buck his antlers are really tall but not very wide. The prarie bucks on the other hand have short but very wide antlers. I cant wait untill this season If I dont get a good one I will go down to the locker plant and take some pics to show what was brought in this year.

 

[mattf 5,000+ posts]

One more for the hell of it. Thats my dog with the deer.

 

[mattf 5,000+ posts]

Here's camp.

 

[PollyCranopolis 10+ year member]

This buck actually jumped from a cliff and became wedged in the fork of this tree. The buck was sedated and extracted by firefighters.