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Mid 30s (F) and drizzle-y, my favorite! And a rifle that eats it up with no dramas.:thup:
But no deer, yet.
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Nice ''sun shades'' JM. Or in this case rain deflectors. Did you ever get that deer you were after last year or are you picking up where you left off?
Only one last year. And that with a "pip squeakier" 16" carbine. Full chest cavity penetration and shattered the far side upper humerus into gravel with a 62gr. WW power point. I think it was pictured in the hunting with milsurps 2010 edtion thread.
This rifle has taken quite a few using a Sierra 55gr Gameking bullet. Liquifies the entire lungs, generally. It's the go-to foul weather rifle. I save the "rare" and high condition milsurps for dry days.
Think I got 11 last year, IIRC. Up to 10 so far this year. Not a lot of time left for hunting during cotton season. Took off a couple hours early today to fix up a batch of Jalapeno and cheddar sausage out of a little three point my son nabbed Monday whilst it was raining. Got some time left before dark so maybe I'll dig out my foul weather gun( AR in 6.8mm) and see if I can bag one for a batch of onion sausage..........
Good grief, 11! Big family, yes? Three is more than enough for our needs, but things have been too much in flux lately to get much hunting in this year. Last year was just lots of hard hunting with results only very late in the season. Maybe losing that hunting lease wasn't such a bad thing...but now it's WMAs or the Nat'l Forest, which is kinda unsettling after years on private land.
Large family, no. Just my 2 sons and I. They hunt too, the oldest has 7 already this year. I say so far, it'll be over here in 30 more days. The youngest has taken up bow hunting and has'nt got the hang of it yet so he's managed to get only 1 to collide with the arrow so far. We do our own processing and give about half of the seasonal take to folks who like venison but can't or don't hunt for whatever reason. The rest we turn into sausage, bologna, roasts, burger and such for our own consumption. Got a bit happy with the jalapenos in this last batch, a little too HOT! You should take a couple days vacation and bring the ''pip squeak'' down to my place and try you're luck, these flat land deer are way better eatin' than those tough old hillside gougers you got up there.:D
I might take you up on that offer! But probably not this year. Vacation is already scheduled and more or less settled as to itenerary.
But if you've fox squirrels, then that's even more tempting! Squirrel safari with muzzleloaders. Lots of fun, if you don't mind missing and having to reload whilst keeping the critter in sight.
Got a few Foxies around but mostly the garden variety Greys. Never went after either with a smoke pole though. Just might be fun. Kinda like rabbit hunting with a single shot .22 and one old slow dog. You ever tried the Speer 70 gr semi spitzers in your AR? Quite an effective little bullet.
No, never felt the need to work up a heavy bullet load.Quote:
Originally Posted by vintage hunter
Started with 60gr Nosler Partitions, which work fine, but always they exited the body. Performance indistinguishable from the usual .30 caliber rounds. Which is to say, it works, but doesn't always anchor the animal altogether, every time. The 55gr Sierras out of the 1-12 twist 20" barrel do a fantastic job, although they tend to shed the jacket, thus producing two exit wounds, or the jacket gets caught in the far ribs. The only time I've had a deer move from where it was shot using 55 grainers was a "too long" shot the impacted forward of the chest cavity just a little. He went maybe 150 yds. ("Too long" because he was much bigger than expected! Thus the error in range estimation)
For years, Winchester market a 64 grain Power Point for "White Tail hunting" It worked fine in 1/12" twist barrel, and it was a fairly short projectile, not like the M855 62 grain (with its lighter steel core and longer bullet). It is more like 55 grainers.
BTW, seeing first hand what an M193 FMJ round does to the human body, I have no doubt in its capability to kill game.
The last deer I got was using this very same factory load out of a 1-7" twist Colt 6940 as mentioned above. Just to see how it would perform. I was impressed that it completely shattered the humerus on the far side of the deer and exited. The velocity loss due to the slightly heavier 64gr (or 62gr??) bullet and shorter barrel made it extra interesting. Good stalking hunt after a frustrating season. Shot from standing position after having frozen in place at the "high ready" for what felt like 15 minutes, waiting for the two deer to present a good broadside shot clear of the brush. Probably should have taken the second as well, as she just remained in place staring at me after the buck was hit. But, like vintage hunter , I process my own, and doing two in a day is a bit much after having worked all night.Quote:
Originally Posted by imarangemaster
Ok JM, I'm all set to make up that batch of onion sausage now, got #11 this afternoon. Since it was a nice dry afternoon I took the Mosin Nagant 91/30 PU for a spin and spied a 6 pt trying to shoot the gap between two patches of woods 236 yds out, and that was the end of his crop damaging career. Probably not gonne be able to salvage much from the front end, those PRVI 150 grainers really tear up some meat. imarangemaster, I've never seen the effects of the M193 FMJ on the human body and don't really care to but they certainly produce some nasty wounds on deer bodies.......
Nice rifle for a hunt, jmoore! Over here the hunters would kill you for using a semi auto, they are veeeery old-style!
Nice looking rifle.I like the rain shields you added on the scope