Today was the opener of gun season here in Michigan, and I got this 7 point that's broke off on one side. I saw him come from some set aside across the road chasing a doe in to a wheat field. I watched him chase that doe all over that wheat field for a few minutes then they both stopped and stood there for a little while then the doe took off at a dead run and they both came to the right side of the blind. The doe crossed the fence line to the right and the buck was just about to cross but he stopped quartering towards me at 96 yards. This happened so fast that I didn't have time to move my shooting sticks so I shot him off hand and hit him between both front shoulders and he dropped in his tracks. I live in the limited firearm zone so I was hunting with an h&r bull barrel 20 gauge with 2 3/4 in lightfield slugs.
got a nice buck today
chance
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dam it boy we have so much in common. when I was 15 my best friend had the moss500 combo with the exchangeable comb pieces that changed the rise of the stock for scope fit. http://www.basspro.com/Mossberg-500-Dual-Comb-PumpAction-Shotgun-Combo/product/10218032/ lol way to much gun for him though.
the handgun rifle rounds are super fun though, don't know whats legal up there in the glove thumb but I shoot .357maximum now. its a old silhouette pistol round that they used to shoot 600yds. I load it with a 200gr .358 soft roundnose rifle bullet with 19 grains of pistol powder. makes for 1800fps its slow and very mean from my 16" or 24"custom MGM barrels love the round it can be loaded from 110-200gr bullets. there is a big step from "slug recoil" to precise rifle placement with limited range. im sure your dad is disappointed with the 77/44 out past 125yds but around here you usually caint see much farther. My wife Amy has a custom MGM 20" 44mag barrel shooting 240gr leverrevolutions and they smoke a slug size hole with 1/3 the recoil.
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last year's deer. look at that .44 hole!
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Nice shooting there, those H&R 20 ga are a shooting gun. Here in DE is shotgun only and know people shooting deer to 200 yds fairly regular. The savage 220 bolt is also a good tack driver. Remington Accutips or Hornaday slugs in 3" have the punch to 200, but sounds like the Lightfields are doing you good. My son just shot a big 7 pt Saturday nite on our opening weekend....congrats again and like WRR said you remind a lot of us what we were like at your age so just take a look at what you have to look forward to growing up like.....
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Did you find those horns on the side of the highway too? :laugh:
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Lol.....
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well.........I Never,lol. nope her deer, I missed it a few days prior when he had the RG2 before he broke it off.
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Our rules are shotguns pistols muzzleloaders and straight wall cartridge rifles over 35 Cal. With a case length of 1.16 in to 1.8 in my dad isn't much of a deer hunter he's more into ducks so he just wants a gun that will shoot to 100 he doesn't even really want to shoot one so he sits with me he's just happy to have a lighter gun to carry lol I'm kind of looking to extend my range to 150 I hunt a lot of open fields so my shots can be long but I wouldn't be comfortable taking a shot past 150
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explore other slugs. that H&R is perfectly capable of softball groups at 150!
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Nice Buck Chance!
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Or look into a GOOD muzzleloader, 100-150 gr powder or pellets with 250 gr bullet will get you a 150yd gun and also be able to hunt muzzleloader season as well, I hunt DE which is shotgun only with my Knight KP1 muzzleloader as my go to gun.
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I might eventually but its cheaper to buy new slugs that way I can afford to buy more bowfishing gear
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I plan on it. Just curious what kind of range do you get out of that 357 maximum and do you handload?
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Or outfit that new boat.....I might eventually but its cheaper to buy new slugs that way I can afford to buy more bowfishing gear
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buddy from work hand loads them for me. and ive only shot it out to 150 (don't have a good place to safely shoot). haven't even got to shoot either gun very far. We messed around with reaming the flash hole, tried some different primers, and upped the grains from 15 to 21gr. tried some 158, 180, and 3 kinds of 200s. we really liked the consistency of 19gr with the flash hole reamed and 7 1/2 Remington primers. both the 200gr hornadys we shot was shooting around 1900fps and only had a standard deviation of 10fps. for us it was "low hanging fruit" and the 200gr .358s create a heck of a wound channel. We would like to find something a little softer for a whitetail though. we kept the round fairly slow but everything we have used so far has minimal mushrooming. We really don't like hollowpoints, and its hard to find heavy weight pistol bullets or soft rifle bullets. The 180gr XTPs do very well to but we didn't stick with them long enough to find their sweet spot. We just kind of found a good load and are sticking with it but the round only drops a few inches at 150 so there is no hold over. Typical southern Indiana though im prepared to shoot 150 and have only had 50yd or less harvest with the round thus far.
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exactlyOr outfit that new boat.....
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Interesting
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to much work, montana Mike's skull mounts. no boiling or bleaching
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Was he hungry ???
I save them in freezer until spring and warm and put the head skinned out in bushel basket with lid on it or chicken wire cage to keep critters out, let flies get on it and maggots pick it clean and put it on ant hill and normally picked spotless in week or so, then wrap gauze with hair care peroxide soaked to bleach it out and works good, done a bunch that way and all turned out good....
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