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Post by messybear on Aug 28, 2023 11:12:32 GMT -5
Oops I messed that up I think.
I’m am sorry to hear something like this^
If you don’t mind is it travel or lease or tags or what expense that keeps you out of the field. Not trying to be nosey just to understand where some guys are. Again I feel bad for anyone who can’t anymore. Wish I could help
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Post by parallaxbill on Aug 28, 2023 18:08:40 GMT -5
I'm hunting on SS but next year once I've been a resident of South Carolina for 180 days my license will only be $9 and free after that.
That's excellent after paying way high fees as an NR since 1980 to hunt my family land.
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Post by lah on Aug 28, 2023 21:52:53 GMT -5
I'm trying to take a deer this year with a 30/30 levergun. Never done that.
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Post by parallaxbill on Sept 3, 2023 16:57:49 GMT -5
30-30 lever gun for deer. What's not to like about that?!
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Post by lah on Sept 4, 2023 10:16:47 GMT -5
30-30 lever gun for deer. What's not to like about that?! To me the sixgun is a tool of opportunity. I have however used it for hunting. My largest whitetail buck was taken in Montana with a short Blackhawk 45. I've taken varmints, snakes, hogs & other things like crows & hawks with the sixgun but in the big scheme of things I'm not a handgun only guy. Mr. Keith stirred in me an interest for about everything that burns powder & that hasn't changed. I've spent hours shooting smallbore silhouettes, both revolver & rifle. Same the centerfire revolver & rifle. I did a few years of IBS long-range rifle, mostly 1000 yard stuff. Shot county matches with my sixguns & a host of other things. I'm not into shotguns much but handguns & rifles I love. That said, I have all the respect in the world for those who choose one platform & stick with it. |
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Post by bigbore5 on Sept 4, 2023 10:37:17 GMT -5
The only two revolver cartridges I shoot that I don't have a lever gun for are the 32H&R and the 500 Linebaugh.
Both are on the list pending some saving up. Especially for the Linebaugh. Those are stupid expensive.
As for rifle cartridges there's a few 30-30's,35's,444,45-70,and a 50-110 in the old styles. 22HP,22-250,250-3000,300,243,and a 308 in the 99's.
By comparison I own only 3 bolt actions, 22H,6.5×55,416 Rigby.
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Post by sixshot on Sept 4, 2023 11:40:23 GMT -5
Lynn.... Hawks, I got a kick out of that, must have been a long time ago. I remember one time, I think it was 1959 & we were fishing along Birch creek & my older brother spotted a large hawk sitting in a tall bush & whacked it with his 22 rifle. As always I was the bird dog! I took off running out there & when I got there I wasn't sure which bush it was, I looked around & finally found it, laying on it's back with both feet sticking straight up at me with those talons wide open. It was just waiting for me to reach down & grab it. I took a stick & it grabbed that instead, yikes! that thing would have sunk those talons clear through my hands. I went back to my brothers 49 Ford & let him finish it off.
Dick
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Post by lah on Sept 4, 2023 19:22:39 GMT -5
Well Dick that would have hurt. One of the best shots I've made was on a hawk at 110 steps with my M-17 Smith. It was a body aim but I hit him in the head.
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Post by birdshead2021 on Sept 5, 2023 9:18:49 GMT -5
I like to carry my 22 revolver when deer hunting kinda just because I can and I have taken a few squirrels with it. Would love to take a deer this year with m Vaquero 45
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