What caliber do you deer hunt with?

**Lash** · 02-21-2009, 02:28 PM

Discuss...

**SSDude** · 02-21-2009, 02:50 PM

.308 150gr good for the north woods
12ga sabot, rifled barrel for the south

**eric302** · 02-21-2009, 02:57 PM

35 cal. Remington

**STANMAN** · 02-21-2009, 04:42 PM

.45-70, 405 grain handload going approx. 2000FPS. Yeah, it hits hard, almost as hard as a 458 Win mag

, that's my woods gun.

If I am sitting anywhere I can see (and shoot) over 200 yards, it's my Model 700 (snow camo) in 30.06.

**STANMAN** · 02-21-2009, 04:43 PM

Originally Posted by eric302

35 cal. Remington

Daddy likes, what type of gun, an old 760 perhaps?

**73Dustr** · 02-21-2009, 04:58 PM

270 WSM with Barnes TTSX handloads. Otherwise, it's the 870 12 ga with Hornady SST sabots.

**STANMAN** · 02-21-2009, 05:06 PM

Originally Posted by 73Dustr

270 WSM with Barnes TTSX handloads. Otherwise, it's the 870 12 ga with Hornady SST sabots.

I have a 300WSM (Browning A bolt) that I have never shot yet even. Love the concept of the short action with magnum veloxity. How does yours shoot??? Using 130 grainers???

**Lash** · 02-21-2009, 07:09 PM

I need to pick up a new rifle. Cant decide if I should go with something like a .270 or along the lines of a .308. UGH...decisions!!!

**0TransAm0** · 02-21-2009, 07:16 PM

i got a winchester model 94 30-30 lever action....it gets the job done just fine..ive had it ever since i passed my hunter saftey course when i was what 13 years old....

**Lash** · 02-21-2009, 07:29 PM

Theres just something about lever actions that I don't like. Maybe it's just that I fell like I'm cocking a BB gun

**Rocket Power** · 02-21-2009, 07:31 PM

8mm Mauser, 7.62x54r, 7.62x39, .357 mag (in a handgun not lever gun but don't have it anymore), 12 ga. slug and this coming year will have .308 to the list.

**Lash** · 02-21-2009, 07:41 PM

I really want a 7mm-08....but don't have the $.

**0TransAm0** · 02-21-2009, 07:45 PM

Originally Posted by Lash

Theres just something about lever actions that I don't like. Maybe it's just that I fell like I'm cocking a BB gun

yeah i know what you mean...i don't always hunt with it i use my dad 30-06 pump action sometimes...depends if im in a stand or doing a push...my 30-30 lever action is really light and is easy to cary threw the thick woods....

**Taetsch Z-24** · 02-21-2009, 10:03 PM

30-40 Krag.

180 Winchester Round nose, loaded to around 24000 FPS. (Or 26, its been some time....)

Chris

**Jsho13** · 02-21-2009, 10:09 PM

7mm Browning X-Bolt

**theavenger333** · 02-22-2009, 12:03 AM

.30 caliber. unless you're firing across some sort of field or prairie, i can't see needing much more to drop a whitetail?

**73Dustr** · 02-22-2009, 02:16 AM

Originally Posted by STANMAN

I have a 300WSM (Browning A bolt) that I have never shot yet even. Love the concept of the short action with magnum veloxity. How does yours shoot??? Using 130 grainers???

That's neglect! I absolutely love the short mags. Mine shoots like a dream. I can punch bullets through the same hole at 100 yards all day long. Yep, I'm shooting the 130 grain. I love the TSX-type bullets. Great performance.

**70 cutlass 442** · 02-22-2009, 05:01 AM

i use a 30-06, my dad uses a 300 Win mag, i always thought the 300 was a bit excessive, but hes getting old and dosnt want to track them i guess.

Breecher_7 · 02-22-2009, 07:04 AM

Browning A-Bolt Syn Stalker, .300 Win Mag

**Jsho13** · 02-22-2009, 09:40 AM

What's the difference between the A bolt and X bolt? Is it just the release on the bolt that allows you do use the action with the safety still on?

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