Terry G
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HA! You have to sneak up and stick the muzzle in his ear....
So what do you guys think of the 22 magnum as a deer killer ?
HA! You have to sneak up and stick the muzzle in his ear....
So what do you guys think of the 22 magnum as a deer killer ?
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So what do you guys think of the 22 magnum as a deer killer ?
In a rifle, in the eyeball, at 35 yards it would still be better than a 9mm out of a pistol at 100 yrs....
So what do you guys think of the 22 magnum as a deer killer ?
My stepbrother killed his first 4 deer with a 22mag rifle. He said they didn't even know they had been shot and 3 dropped right next to where he shot them, the one ran to the tree line "about 50 feet" looking back at my step brother trying to figure out what happened, then dropped. Now he uses a 30-06 and says it seems like every single one runs at least 100yds....
So what do you guys think of the 22 magnum as a deer killer ?
How did he get them penned up?My stepbrother killed his first 4 deer with a 22mag rifle. He said they didn't even know they had been shot and 3 dropped right next to where he shot them, the one ran to the tree line "about 50 feet" looking back at my step brother trying to figure out what happened, then dropped. Now he uses a 30-06 and says it seems like every single one runs at least 100yds.
All were shot 50 to 100 yards with the 22mag and were normal small deer in the back yard of the family home or about at what I would call 9mm range.
Might as well have been in a pen as they were in the less than 1 acre back yard with a big old apple tree growing in the middle of the yard. We like to say it's the deadliest apple tree in the state of maine.How did he get them penned up?
Humanity of hunting is to not let the animals suffer. We owe it to themMy stepbrother killed his first 4 deer with a 22mag rifle. He said they didn't even know they had been shot and 3 dropped right next to where he shot them, the one ran to the tree line "about 50 feet" looking back at my step brother trying to figure out what happened, then dropped. Now he uses a 30-06 and says it seems like every single one runs at least 100yds.
All were shot 50 to 100 yards with the 22mag and were normal small deer in the back yard of the family home or about at what I would call 9mm range.
Might as well have been in a pen as they were in the less than 1 acre back yard with a big old apple tree growing in the middle of the yard. We like to say it's the deadliest apple tree in the state of maine.
He was just doing what he could with what he had.
This thread is going nowhere at a faster FPS then the original round in question.
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So what do you guys think of the 22 magnum as a deer killer ?
I have never used one , but I do know folks that swear by it for putting meat on the platter year round . Who am I to judge ? I have been to the slaughter house . A calf hanging upside down waiting to get the knife probably dies a more horrible death than a deer with a bullet in the eye.In a set of headlights, they work just fine.
I never said they were doing it legally. This is WV, which is fully encapsulated in the Appalachian mountains, much is very remote and isolated. Not the hardest place to get away with stuff. I do not own an isolated farm, and do NOT poach deer, but know a lot of people that do/have.I’m unaware of any state where it’s legal to hunt deer with a rimfire. At least in the 5 I hunted them in it wasn’t legal.