I would love to hunt out west i think it is awesome country.My family hunts mostly in the adirondacks.
I myself go to Canada or Maine every year for a week. Matter of fact bear season just opened today 9/18/04. Also we can use a multitude of firearms and bows for hunting, I use a 45/70 guide gun and also carry a 44 mag pistol. I reload some stuff also. My 45/70 is on at 100 yards and only drops an inch and half at 150 yards using 405 grain flat nose bullet. If you guys have any questions about hunting in NY i will be sure to help you the best i can.

 

Is that one of the Marlin Guide guns, if so how do you like it ? They look like fun, in a kinda painful way![img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]

 

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If your loading for the 45/70 take a look in the Lyman mold book. They have a 550 grain hollow point gas check mold that produces an excellent bullet for use in nearly all 45/70s. Cast in 50/50 mix of lynotype and pure lead it holds the rifelings well to about 1500 FPS and still expands well.

I enjoy hunting with the old rifles and have a couple of the modern reproductions as well as a number of the originals. Glad to see I'm not the only one that still shoots the old "coal burners". [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-cool.gif[/img]

 

go- You need one of those huge 45/70 hand guns. Then you'd only need to carry one kind of bullets.

45-70

 

Thats nice somebody that likes some recoil too. the 45/70 is my favorite gun that I have and yes it is a guide gun. I have also owned the 444 but didnt like the performance. Next investment is the 450 marlin the ultimate bigbore. actually i forgot to mention the 45/70 took a 250 pound black bear today.it was opening day in upstate ny......



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I saw 4 bear while riding the other day. Three ran out ahead of me and one to the right of me. There was a mother and at least two babies. I'm not sure if the fourth bear was a male, another baby or another mother bear.

We still have some time before bear season starts here.

 

For pure, brutal recoil it's hard to beat a Thompson Contender carbine with a 16" bbl in 45/70. Seen long time shooters that wanted no part of a second round. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]

Congrats on the bear, are you going to smoke the hams? Better than pork to my way of thinking.

 

yes i am going to smoke some of the meat,tencubed. i think that is the only way to eat bear.besides marinating the meat over night then putting it on the grill. the bear i shot last year wasnt quite as big but it had unbelievable taste. we have alot of bear here, it crazy because we can not bait any animal in ny. i shot the one last year when i was walking to my stand.

a good friend of mine has a thompson contender in 45/70 ,he uses it all over for hunting, he took bison,wild boar,whitetail,mule deer,rams, goats ofcourse some are canned hunts not fair chase hunts, not my way of hunting to be honest.......
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