What's your deer rifle?

[dwl]

Can I kill a conversation or what. Did I forget the deoderant?

[BlauBear]

Season's open and without bragging rights nobody has much to say...

[Bob Mc Alice]

Congrats on the harvest, Dave. Buck or doe? Was the boy with you?

[dwl]

Bob;

Thanks. It was in fact a doe. A friend and I have depredation tags from a local rancher. The antelope were in a pasture that was about 400 yards by 600 yards and all grass, no cover what ever. We were able to walk up the back side of a hill and crawl to the top which gave me the 225 yard shot.

I used the Hunter Rifle that Lauren Peter built and to which I added the CG Universal Trigger. It was a nice one shot kill from a sitting with a sling. Almost anticlimactic. My friend was spotting and said the animal dropped like a sack. The Accubond entered the point of the shoulder and exited the neck as the doe was quartering away with her head down grazing.

Yes, Geoff was with me. He was excited to go hunting and proud to carry his new Savage Mark IY just in case we

[Bob Mc Alice]

Bob;

It was a nice one shot kill from a sitting with a sling. Almost anticlimactic.

Yep.....of those of us that shoot silhouette and hunt, you go into the game fields with extreme confidence. "Buck Fever"....never heard of it. If the shot presents it self, there will be meat in the freezer.

Some of the guys I work with that hunt cringe at the thought of shooting at an animal past 150 yds. Lots of admitted misses and lost, wounded critters. When I tell them of some of the long distance kills I have made, with a scope set @ 12x plus, they shake their heads.

I will rarely take a long shot without some kind of rest or solid shooting position. But once on the target things like wind speed , direction, elevation, distance etc. come into play. When the trigger is finally pulled, you know the bullet will do it's job.

[Bob Mc Alice]

Saw this paragraph in a lead hazard article on msnbc news . Make sure you spit out that lead chunk before you swallow.




Hunting or fishing
Bullets used in hunting rifles can distribute lead fragments throughout the animal's body and make the meat unsafe to eat, says Mark Pokras, DVM, an associate professor at Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine. Fishers come in contact with metal dust and salts via sinkers and lures.

Protect yourself: Hunters should clean and leave their gear outside. Go to barnesbullets.com for lead-free ammo, and find places to buy safe fishing supplies at prevention.com/links. If you're sticking with lead sinkers, either wear gloves when handling or wash hands thoroughly, especially before downing a sandwich on the boat.

[deadeyeky]

omg, how many people have died or even gotten sick by lead poisoning from fishing or hunting? and in the milliseconds after the bullet hits the deer to the time the heart stops, how far can lead travel through the blood stream,

[shootnchef]

Everybody says that my deer rifle is too large. I however have had no complaints from the deer when I hit them with the .338 Lapua Mag. The only problem I have with it is the fact that it wieghs 15 pounds.

[dwl]

Chef, we could help you out there...by adding some wheels to the bipod!

Inquiring minds want to know, tell us about the 15lb 338 Lapua.

[Jason]

Holy crap, Chad. I'm hoping it's just so you can use one gun from deer up through grizzlies/moose. I can't imagine trying to drag a 15lb rifle up and down the mountains around here hunting blacktails and elk, though.

[shootnchef]

Well to get a 15 pound Lapua first you start with a 32 in. Shillen barrel. Then to the barrel you and the largest muzzle break you can find in brownells. The stock is a remington sendero style that has been extensively pillar beded. The scope on the top is a 6.5 x 20 luepold and the bipod is a harris. The last thing you need is on the butt section of the stock you place a shell holder that carries 9 rounds of ammo.

That is how you build a 15 pound .338 lapua mag.

[Jason]

Is this a "long range hunting" rig that you use to shoot from a portable shooting bench after spotting with the big binoculars? Doesn't sound like something all that portable.

[chickenchoker]

Jason,I'd rather shoot a 15 lb 338 Lapua Mag then one that weighs 7.5 lb.

[sdwooster]

Out here in PeEll we use a 6mm Remington for deer. Using a 106 hammit with a mild load of relaoder 22. Longest shot was made by a 11 year old at 672 yards. One shot in the neck. And for elk we use a standard 270 win. with 130 spt Sierra with a reloader 22. One elk a 13 years old shot was at 572 in the back of the head. So why use the big cannons. Last year a good friend of mine shot a deer at 900 yards with a hunter class 260 remington, one shot. This year we have a 6.5-284 looking for some 1000 yard deer shooting. Have a couple of them spotted for Wednesday. But all the rifles have had some Mr. Marvin work on them. So guys think small rifles and have some fun.

Steve

[BlauBear]

First off, I'm not much of a hunter - I lack the patience, hate field dressing (blood, feces, and flies are not my idea of a good time), and detest packing out the kill - but clearly remember a lesson.

First, "beware the man with just one gun - he probably knows how to use it." Then Kitty showed me a centerfire cartridge (.308?) with a really large soft point and very light load, and then explained it was a squirrel load from a man that only had - and only wanted - one gun. He just varied the load to suit to the game and kept using the tool he knew.

Because I'm a recoil wuss and a long shot snob, the 6.5mm seems like a really good idea unless you're chasing moose or bear (that seems like a definitively bad idea anyway). Am I dreaming?