[quote]orion wrote:
Zap Branigan wrote:
rainjack wrote:
That’s nothing. Last fall I hit a deer running at full speed…with a pick up going 70 mph.
So did my wife with a minivan. Hit it right in the Poconos.
My brother hit an elk.
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My oldest son ran over the family dog.
[quote]pushharder wrote:
tom63 wrote:
I got two deer this year, a ten point buck with a shot in the spine from 145 yards and a doe shot in the neck while running at 190 yards. These were both very quick shots with not alot of time to get set and ready.
Lifting is easy, hitting a deer in the neck at close to 200 while running and shooting offhand is hard.
OK, Tom, you asked fer it.
I got two women last week, a two point doe with a shot just below the base of the spine and a doe shot in the face and neck while lying down at .33 yards. These were both very quick shots with plenty of time to get set and ready.[/quote]
Spine shots are awesome! They just instantly stop moving. The best part is my 13 year old son saw both and now he thinks the old man is Bob Lee Swagger the 2nd. It’s harder and harder to impress kids these days.
And btw, I let my son shoot at the ten pointer first. When he missed the gun came up and the deer when down very quickly. he’s 13 like I said and I think he got the yips a little. It’ll pass. Just don’t want everyone to think I’m soem bully and didn’t give my son a crack first.
He’s a decent shot, but so far every shot he’s had in two years is 145+ yards and two were moving. He had two shots each year, but I think he’ll be a little steadier next season. We’re going to do some more work this year, and he’s bigger and stronger now. I think it’s a little hard for him to be rock steady yet.
BTW, he did his first 200 pound deadlift this august while he was still 12. He dropped down about 10 pounds due to a long basketball season, but he’s doing football workouts now and hsi strength is coming up. He did 160 x 100 on the trap bar last week for instance.
You see, bragging about shooting and your kid!
[quote]tom63 wrote:
Dedicated wrote:
tom63 wrote:
I got two deer this year, a ten point buck with a shot in the spine from 145 yards and a doe shot in the neck while running at 190 yards. These were both very quick shots with not alot of time to get set and ready.
Lifting is easy, hitting a deer in the neck at close to 200 while running and shooting offhand is hard.
Hit my Bull Elk moving (not all out running) at 160 yards with iron sights (peep sights) with a fifty cal. muzzleloader. First shot lunged him and he stopped at 170 getting ready to drop. Reloaded and hit em again in the shoulder and dropped him flat.
Used my 243 during a later season to drop my little buck with a spine shot at 100 yards.
D
Great shooting Dedicated. Have you done a lot of muzzleloader shooting and hunting? My dad does it, but I’ve never tried.
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Thanks Tom, we mainly put in for muzzleloader tags and will be again this year. I will either pull a bull tag again (unlikely)or get my second choice cow elk. I have three preference points for deer and will surely get my muzzleloader buck tag. I also have three points for Antelope buck (pronghorn) and will be toting the 243 for that during regular rifle season. I tell ya I love hunting and would be in the field 24/7 if possible.
D
[quote]Rockscar wrote:
I pissed on a floating piece of TP…shot that fucker down in no time…see ya![/quote]
I clean the shit stains in my toilet with a good stream.
[quote]Dedicated wrote:
tom63 wrote:
Dedicated wrote:
tom63 wrote:
I got two deer this year, a ten point buck with a shot in the spine from 145 yards and a doe shot in the neck while running at 190 yards. These were both very quick shots with not alot of time to get set and ready.
Lifting is easy, hitting a deer in the neck at close to 200 while running and shooting offhand is hard.
Hit my Bull Elk moving (not all out running) at 160 yards with iron sights (peep sights) with a fifty cal. muzzleloader. First shot lunged him and he stopped at 170 getting ready to drop. Reloaded and hit em again in the shoulder and dropped him flat.
Used my 243 during a later season to drop my little buck with a spine shot at 100 yards.
D
Great shooting Dedicated. Have you done a lot of muzzleloader shooting and hunting? My dad does it, but I’ve never tried.
Thanks Tom, we mainly put in for muzzleloader tags and will be again this year. I will either pull a bull tag again (unlikely)or get my second choice cow elk. I have three preference points for deer and will surely get my muzzleloader buck tag. I also have three points for Antelope buck (pronghorn) and will be toting the 243 for that during regular rifle season. I tell ya I love hunting and would be in the field 24/7 if possible.
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A 243 would be next on my list of hunting guns. I have 3 308s now and they all shoot great. For deer I use a Remington police sniper model with a trigger job, rail scope mount, and a 3 x 9 Leopold with mil dots. It shoots under 1/2" at 100 hundred yards, so i’m content for now.
[quote]pushharder wrote:
OK, Tom, I’ll go ahead and make some of my firearms boasts. I shot a 3/8", three shot group at 100 yards with my Ruger No. 1 chambered in .338/378 Weatherby. Got the target witnessed, signed and everything.
For those of you who may be unfamiliar with that cartridge, it is a wildcat, a .378 Weatherby case necked down to .338. It fires a 250 grain Barnes X bullet at 3100 f.p.s. Generates more ft/lbs. of energy at 300 yards than a 30.06 does at the muzzle. I load the case with 123 gr. of slow burning powder.
Shot a five point bull elk broadside at 315 yards uphill. Bullet penetrated the near shoulder, mushroomed properly, passed through the anterior portion of the lungs and exited the offside shoulder. Never found the bullet. Knocked him down like he had been hit by a train. Both entry and exit locations were the thickest part of the shoulder bone.
Shot an antelope at 525 yards on a windy day (got lucky to be honest) and shot a whitetail at 550 - 600 yards.
(Of course, boasting about shots made on game on the internet is like boasting about your squats poundage and how deep you go)
I also have a custom built Win. Model 70 chambered in 6.5/300 Weatherby (.300 W necked down to 6.5mm/.264) - also a wildcat cartridge - with a 28" barrel. It’s a sweetie too. That 140 grain bullet rockets outta there at speeds approaching what a 55 gr. bullet exits a .22-250.[/quote]
That’s some sweet shooting push and some very nice equipment. Here in Pa. we won’t get much shooting farther than 200 yards. I do most of my practicing to handle the 200 yard and less shots. It would eb nice to get out west sometime and give it a go.
That .338/.378 sounds very interesting. More at 300 than a 30 06 at the muzzle is very nice. That elk had no chnace, hahaha!
[quote]pushharder wrote:
OK, Tom, I’ll go ahead and make some of my firearms boasts. I shot a 3/8", three shot group at 100 yards with my Ruger No. 1 chambered in .338/378 Weatherby. Got the target witnessed, signed and everything.
For those of you who may be unfamiliar with that cartridge, it is a wildcat, a .378 Weatherby case necked down to .338. It fires a 250 grain Barnes X bullet at 3100 f.p.s. Generates more ft/lbs. of energy at 300 yards than a 30.06 does at the muzzle. I load the case with 123 gr. of slow burning powder.
Shot a five point bull elk broadside at 315 yards uphill. Bullet penetrated the near shoulder, mushroomed properly, passed through the anterior portion of the lungs and exited the offside shoulder. Never found the bullet. Knocked him down like he had been hit by a train. Both entry and exit locations were the thickest part of the shoulder bone.
Shot an antelope at 525 yards on a windy day (got lucky to be honest) and shot a whitetail at 550 - 600 yards.
(Of course, boasting about shots made on game on the internet is like boasting about your squats poundage and how deep you go)
I also have a custom built Win. Model 70 chambered in 6.5/300 Weatherby (.300 W necked down to 6.5mm/.264) - also a wildcat cartridge - with a 28" barrel. It’s a sweetie too. That 140 grain bullet rockets outta there at speeds approaching what a 55 gr. bullet exits a .22-250.[/quote]
Boasting on shots on the net is just like lifting, you kind of get an idea who’s talking the talk and who’s walking the walk.
Were you wearing leather pants?
I once hit a dog while being chased by a bunch of goons. Luckily I had installed a Flugle de-dog switch with 210/220whateverittakes coils. I hit that de-dog switch and the pooch rocketed right into the windshield of the goon’s Lincoln. I hit the gas on my Trans-am and it was so long suckers.
(Of course boasting about your custom de-dog switch on the internet is like boasting about how fast you can count backwards from a thousand on the internet)
Well if its a hunting boast thread, I have shot Kudu, buffalo, and many other poor innocent African creatures that just did not deserve to be killed 
http://www.panohunting.com/abt_us.html
This is my Uncles hunting safari company
[quote]tom63 wrote:
I got two deer this year, a ten point buck with a shot in the spine from 145 yards and a doe shot in the neck while running at 190 yards. These were both very quick shots with not alot of time to get set and ready.
Lifting is easy, hitting a deer in the neck at close to 200 while running and shooting offhand is hard.[/quote]
Good shooting. I took two deer also. One buck and one doe. Nothing to dramatic. I don’t shoot at running deer, just let them pass.
My son got his first deer and gutted it himself and dragged it out. That’s something I enjoyed boasting about!
[quote]sen say wrote:
I once hit a dog while being chased by a bunch of goons. Luckily I had installed a Flugle de-dog switch with 210/220whateverittakes coils. I hit that de-dog switch and the pooch rocketed right into the windshield of the goon’s Lincoln. I hit the gas on my Trans-am and it was so long suckers.
(Of course boasting about your custom de-dog switch on the internet is like boasting about how fast you can count backwards from a thousand on the internet)[/quote]
One of my employees just walked in to my office to see why I was laughing out loud. Thanks for the laugh.
I couldn’t tell him I’m wasting time on the net of course…which leads me to my opportunity to boast…I work for myself, so I can waste as much time on the net as I want.
And I just build a new house on 5 acres…I’m having an out door firing range (basically just a ramped down dirt depression) installed… 30.06, M1 semi automatic and 20 ga shot gun.
I’m looking for a hand gun for both personal protection and for field use. Never owned one, any suggestions?
[quote]dk44 wrote:
One time I hit a bird while driving on the highway, didn’t know what the fuck it was at the time, but when I parked and looked there was a little fucking bird stuck in the grill. That is way smaller than a 10 point buck, so therefore way harder and cooler.[/quote]
Well i had some unknown insect (the size of a small cat) almost take my head off whilst doing about 90 on my motorbike. Thing damn near exploded on contact with the visor.
Considering my choice of vehicle makes ME a projectile weapon, I win.
[quote]Neebone wrote:
dk44 wrote:
One time I hit a bird while driving on the highway, didn’t know what the fuck it was at the time, but when I parked and looked there was a little fucking bird stuck in the grill. That is way smaller than a 10 point buck, so therefore way harder and cooler.
Well i had some unknown insect (the size of a small cat) almost take my head off whilst doing about 90 on my motorbike. Thing damn near exploded on contact with the visor.
Considering my choice of vehicle makes ME a projectile weapon, I win.[/quote]
On behalf of my son, I would like to thank you for your courtesy and foresight. One of your colleagues supplied him with a new tibia;-)
Well, one time I…wait, no, that wasn’t me.
[quote]TQB wrote:
Neebone wrote:
dk44 wrote:
One time I hit a bird while driving on the highway, didn’t know what the fuck it was at the time, but when I parked and looked there was a little fucking bird stuck in the grill. That is way smaller than a 10 point buck, so therefore way harder and cooler.
Well i had some unknown insect (the size of a small cat) almost take my head off whilst doing about 90 on my motorbike. Thing damn near exploded on contact with the visor.
Considering my choice of vehicle makes ME a projectile weapon, I win.
On behalf of my son, I would like to thank you for your courtesy and foresight. One of your colleagues supplied him with a new tibia;-)[/quote]
Like Rambo once said, live for nothing, die for something.
[quote]rugbyhit wrote:
sen say wrote:
I once hit a dog while being chased by a bunch of goons. Luckily I had installed a Flugle de-dog switch with 210/220whateverittakes coils. I hit that de-dog switch and the pooch rocketed right into the windshield of the goon’s Lincoln. I hit the gas on my Trans-am and it was so long suckers.
(Of course boasting about your custom de-dog switch on the internet is like boasting about how fast you can count backwards from a thousand on the internet)
One of my employees just walked in to my office to see why I was laughing out loud. Thanks for the laugh.
I couldn’t tell him I’m wasting time on the net of course…which leads me to my opportunity to boast…I work for myself, so I can waste as much time on the net as I want.
And I just build a new house on 5 acres…I’m having an out door firing range (basically just a ramped down dirt depression) installed… 30.06, M1 semi automatic and 20 ga shot gun.
I’m looking for a hand gun for both personal protection and for field use. Never owned one, any suggestions?[/quote]
If you are going to carry it for protection I like the Glock 19. That’s my carry gun.
If you want to hunt with it I’d go bigger. I hunt with a .44mag when I use a pistol, which isn’t too often.
If you are limiting yourself to one gun that has to do both go with a 4" barreled Smith and Wesson in .357mag. It’s a compromise but will fill both roles.
[quote]pushharder wrote:
OK, Tom, I’ll go ahead and make some of my firearms boasts. I shot a 3/8", three shot group at 100 yards with my Ruger No. 1 chambered in .338/378 Weatherby. Got the target witnessed, signed and everything.
For those of you who may be unfamiliar with that cartridge, it is a wildcat, a .378 Weatherby case necked down to .338. It fires a 250 grain Barnes X bullet at 3100 f.p.s. Generates more ft/lbs. of energy at 300 yards than a 30.06 does at the muzzle. I load the case with 123 gr. of slow burning powder.
Shot a five point bull elk broadside at 315 yards uphill. Bullet penetrated the near shoulder, mushroomed properly, passed through the anterior portion of the lungs and exited the offside shoulder. Never found the bullet. Knocked him down like he had been hit by a train. Both entry and exit locations were the thickest part of the shoulder bone.
Shot an antelope at 525 yards on a windy day (got lucky to be honest) and shot a whitetail at 550 - 600 yards.
(Of course, boasting about shots made on game on the internet is like boasting about your squats poundage and how deep you go)
I also have a custom built Win. Model 70 chambered in 6.5/300 Weatherby (.300 W necked down to 6.5mm/.264) - also a wildcat cartridge - with a 28" barrel. It’s a sweetie too. That 140 grain bullet rockets outta there at speeds approaching what a 55 gr. bullet exits a .22-250.[/quote]
Push
You got some cool firearms!
[quote]hedo wrote:
rugbyhit wrote:
sen say wrote:
I once hit a dog while being chased by a bunch of goons. Luckily I had installed a Flugle de-dog switch with 210/220whateverittakes coils. I hit that de-dog switch and the pooch rocketed right into the windshield of the goon’s Lincoln. I hit the gas on my Trans-am and it was so long suckers.
(Of course boasting about your custom de-dog switch on the internet is like boasting about how fast you can count backwards from a thousand on the internet)
One of my employees just walked in to my office to see why I was laughing out loud. Thanks for the laugh.
I couldn’t tell him I’m wasting time on the net of course…which leads me to my opportunity to boast…I work for myself, so I can waste as much time on the net as I want.
And I just build a new house on 5 acres…I’m having an out door firing range (basically just a ramped down dirt depression) installed… 30.06, M1 semi automatic and 20 ga shot gun.
I’m looking for a hand gun for both personal protection and for field use. Never owned one, any suggestions?
If you are going to carry it for protection I like the Glock 19. That’s my carry gun.
If you want to hunt with it I’d go bigger. I hunt with a .44mag when I use a pistol, which isn’t too often.
If you are limiting yourself to one gun that has to do both go with a 4" barreled Smith and Wesson in .357mag. It’s a compromise but will fill both roles.
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To carry concealed I had one person recommend a .38, but now that I think about it, an autoloader may be the way to go.
I’ve had limited experience around hand guns and I have to imagine that once I start to carry it will take a little time to get used to. Thanks for the tips.