Just got back from deer hunting (warning - dead deer pics)

[gunner]

Guten Morgen Harlan,

that is not the badest idea! Can you reserve me a plot about an hectar or so?
The BMW isn`t a problem i`ll bring it with me. When did we go hunting? Hey and not to forget i need a bow. Can you please order a bow for me, and let it deliver to my new adress !

See you soon

Ulrich

[gunner]

Hi Jon,

the massive copper bullets can be good, but over here we have some troubles with it. This kind of bullets makes only a hole as big as the bullet diameter. So that on our short distances you have to place the shot at an immediately deadly point. O.K. that is the purpose of any hunter but here we(the gouvernment) have divided the forests in several plots. Every plot is the property of an hunter. So the problem is, that if you shoot a deer and he is not falling down and jumps over the border to the other plot it is now the deer of the other hunter and it is not allowed to hunt over your border. That is the reason why the hunters here dont like the copper bullets.

Best Regards

Gunner

[Harlan (Deceased)]

Guten Morgen, du auch, Ulrich

Nothing is impossible until you've tried it!

[gunner]

Harlan,

good answer

Ulrich

[Claven2]

Bill, moderators - I'm glad you're cutting the hunters some slack on this site. Hunting with milsurps is an american trAdition. Back when a Model 70 was $100, you could buy a Krag for $10 and take an elk just fine. Milsurps are the people's hunting rifles.

jn

Hunting topics are completely within the rules in the Watering Hole forum Please feel free to indulge your inner Jeremiah Johnson.

[Bill Hollinger]

Jon, the X Bullet doesn't seem to do real well on our small Columbian Blacktails, Mule deer, wild boar and small bear. They just zip through and have very little chance to expand. I am told they do a great job on large game animals though. I refuse to rifle hunt in Kaliforniev now. It's all about the bow now.

[jon_norstog]

Bill,

My brother says that load chronos over 2600 fps in his Mauser. The bullet should have either expanded or gone out the other side. It didn't hit any major bone. I didn't have time to look for the shell, what with dressing the animal and all. Is why I'm wondering if one of those old primers maybe didn't light up the powder as it should have.

Gunner's post made me think about things. Here, it's commonly accepted that you follow a wounded animal wherever it goes, and it's yours. There have been nasty incidents in which hunters shot and tried to claim an animal another hunter had wounded and was tracking.

Gunner, you should come over to this country and hunt. The dollar is down!

jn

[gunner]

Hi Jon,

that is a dream from me. But at the moment there is no chance for me. But it will be sometime and then i will be happy if i can go hunting with such nice guys like you or Harlan.

All the best

Gunner

[jon_norstog]

Gunner,

once you get here, buy a car. You can live in national forests - you got to change your camp site every two weeks is all. When I was younger I would hitchhike around the US every summer and I met lots of travelers from Europe who had bought cars here and were seeing the US very cheaply. Now, with the dollar so low, it is even easier.

Hunting in the US is all state-regulated, so you have to pick a state, then buy the licenses and tags. I live in Idaho, so that's where I hunt, but I like Montana, the way they have their seasons set up and all.

You might look at Canada too. I'm not certain about the scene there, I know rich Americans go up there to hunt.

Maybe I'll move to Montana. I kinda got myself talked into it.

jn

[Harlan (Deceased)]

You might look at Canada too. I'm not certain about the scene there, I know rich Americans go up there to hunt.

Yes, rich Texans go to Canada to hunt and rich Canadians go to Texas to hunt!
(It's all good!)

Maybe I'll move to Montana. I kinda got myself talked into it.

Ahhhh, 'Montana'.
- Jon, If I had the means, it wouldn't be a very long conversation with myself to talk me into it!