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

[gunner]

Hi Jon,

thank you for the advices, but at the moment the business keeps me staying here. But one day i will make a trip to the States and then i hope i`ll find you and we can go hunting and have some fun.

All the best!

Gunner

Harlan,

i am not rich and i am not a Canadian, but i hope a bit of a normal German guy can go hunting at Texas too !

Best Regards

Gunner

BTW. we have problems with poachers here. We found the restovers of 5 deers and one complete with a few holes in it. The police said the bullets are from a AK 47!!! Hope to see those idiots in my scope.

[jmoore]

Our poachers aren't the problem they used to be, it seems. Still get a few tresspassers, but the locals have more or less gotten the message, what with a policeman as one of our members and another who likes to do mag dumps w/ his registered full auto toys (generally not during the hunting season...!)

[gunner]

jmoore,

we have this problems since we have some thousands of russian emigrants over here.The most of them are good guys but some are not that kind of men that you want to have as a neighbor. This few guys do anything that you can normally see in bad movies like drug dealing, stealing and kill each other. Couple of years ago they caught such an guy wich was hunting with an crossbow and sold the deer to restaurants. Now they reached a new dimension to hunt with full autos. Some of our hunters are now afraid to go at their forest in the dark time of the year( winter). Lets see what happens!

Regards

Gunner

[dastier]

Congrats Claven2! That's a beautiful buck and I really like that you used a milsurp to get it. My go to gun for hunting is a Savage 99F in .243Win with Nosler Partitions but next year I hope to use a scoped Mosin for at least some of the hunt. (I always get two tags).

And Gunner you're welcome to come here to hunt (Manitoba, Canada). Years ago we had lots of German soldiers training at CFB Shilo. They left their BMWs behind in Germany but brought their Leopards and Marders. Our deer are plentiful and big!

dastier(fugawi on CGN)

[Claven2]

Well, actually, the only thing milsurp was the cartridge casing which was a 1941 casing for a Swedish M1919 Browning.

The rifle is a commercial Husqvarna M98 with no thumb-cut, chambered in 8x63 Swedish.

Here's a great website about the caliber and the guns that shoot it:

http://www.8x63swedish.pridham.ca/

[jmoore]

Just to fit in w/ the milsurps theme, the upper on my rifle is early M16, just changed the handguards and added an early Colt (USA) post reticle scope. The lower is just a utility mule. Military brass, also.

[gunner]

dastier,

thank you for your friendly offer. I think it will not last long till i pack my kodiak and row to your side of the pond ! :-)

Regards

Gunner

[dastier]

You're welcome gunner - what kind of rifle do you use to hunt deer in Germany? And Claven2 - no mater whether milsurp or not that still a nice buck!

Maybe we should start a new thread - what kind of milsurp have you hunted with!

[TDH]

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

Jon it used to be in Ohio you had a legal and moral right to follow a wounded deer. It was common courtesy to ask the next land owner and explain the situation and it was generally a given permission was granted. Alas in the last 10 years or so things have changed. Now if the land is posted you stay out. You can ask permission of the next land owner and if they say no you have the option of contacting the local game warden and he may talk to the land owner. If permission is denied at that point you can not follow. I lost a nice doe last year to this situation. It got over the fence that had the sign:

DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT CROSSING THIS FENCE!

Now sometimes justice does prevail. A young fella of my aquaintance ran into this situation and the game warden went to the farmer and was told get off my property. The GW watched the downed deer the rest of the day and just before dark the farmer arrived with a tractor and got the deer. An hour later the farmer had a ticket for tagging a deer he did not shoot and lost the deer.

[gunner]

dastier,

i use my LE No4 MkI* with an old 7 power Kahles scope and a number 1 reticle. It works great with the right bullet. And there is enough power to shoot wildboars too. A friend is using an Argentino Mauser and a other one is shooting his Swede M38. And what do you use?

Regards

Gunner