the smallest rifle you have shot moose or deer with?
Jul 22, 2004 | 08:40 PM
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the smallest rifle you have shot moose or deer with?
Just wondering because it seems like a lot of people think bigger is better and I dont feel that way. My savage 30-06 model 110C is what I use for deer and moose. And I dont use the 180 gr bullet either. usually I use 150 gr or the largest has been 165.
Jul 23, 2004 | 01:47 AM
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the smallest rifle you have shot moose or deer with?
.223 Remington on a deer. It was close range and I felt really confident about the shot or I wouldn't have taken it. Far too easy to would an animal and not be able to retrieve it. In fact several years ago I shot a doe that had multiple wounds from what I assume to be a .22 rimfire. I counted 7 wounds with embedded bullets or fragments and there were 3 more that could have been wounds that were through and through. The infection was really bad and I couldn't use the meat. Probably did the animal a favor by killing it and ending the pain it must have been in.
I've moved to using heavier calibers just so I can anchor the animal quickly and don't have those long tracking sessions. I figure what little meat I may lose from a larger bullet wound I gain with having better quality meat. Especially if you lose the blood trail in the dark and have to retrieve the animal the next morning or many hours later. That kind of thing makes a difference in meat quality I think.
I've moved to using heavier calibers just so I can anchor the animal quickly and don't have those long tracking sessions. I figure what little meat I may lose from a larger bullet wound I gain with having better quality meat. Especially if you lose the blood trail in the dark and have to retrieve the animal the next morning or many hours later. That kind of thing makes a difference in meat quality I think.
Jul 23, 2004 | 08:33 AM
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the smallest rifle you have shot moose or deer with?
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Jul 24, 2004 | 11:56 AM
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the smallest rifle you have shot moose or deer with?
Shot few deer with .22 rimfire and lots of them with .223 Mini-14(Best weapon to carry on an ATV) and also shot few 2 moose with that 223, shot a moose with 22-250 but usally use my old faitfull 30-06 Browning or my newly aquisition 300 Short Action browning w/Boss.
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Jul 26, 2004 | 02:23 AM
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the smallest rifle you have shot moose or deer with?
Shot a bull in the nuts with my bb gun when I was a kid. I was in the pasture with him and about 200 yrds to the fence. He almost got me. He did get the bb gun. I dropped it on my way out of the pasture.