I actually had a very nice .44mag SBH. Had to sell it right after I got layed off to pay some bills. Shot it quite a bit but I also didn't hunt much when I was working LOL.So what are you waiting for? I've said it before and will say it again come to the dark side.
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Your big game hunting style?
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WestKentucky
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Ruger SA craze? Nah. I had a SBH 44 long barrel, and I hated it. My similarly set up single six is one of my favorites though. I need to locate an affordable and abused .357 to love on though.
JeffG
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Love my Vaqueros.
troy fairweather
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there is a nice herters 357 by me.one of the ones made it Germany copy of a ruger black hawk new in the box $160 out the door if i had a pistol permit id like to pick it up.
Soooooo, it all depends on the day/game, I've sploded pdogs anywhere from 30 ft to 300 yds+. We park, shoot prone out of the bed, across the box, across the mirror for my one friend as well (broke his neck back in high school so it's most convenient for him). We use anything from 17hmr/.22lr on up to 300rum/7stw depending on what we're doing, dominantly the .223 and .243 show up the most for for these events, but if we just happen by the dogtown whilst searching for other targets, then, these things happen you know? Even rolled a few with .410s, 20ga, and 12gas lol. Yotes are treated in a similar manner, if a target of opportunity arises, whatever is handy will work, your hi point has taken a few (made a VERY handy truck gun for awhile) one winter 10 years ago, the Temps were -30 with 30+ mph winds and the mangy dogs were so desperate I could have taken 2 throwing my bowie, I was dropping 4/day easy for several days and not setting to call them, just checking cows and windmills etc. If I'm on a dedicated Yote hunt, the .22 revolver, maybe a 12 ga, and one of the .223, .22-250, .243s will be present. I don't personally pull the trigger on deer anymore as that's gotten too boring, but I've used .243, .30-30, .300 sav, .30-40 krag, .300wm., and 12 ga on them, ranges were always between 25-600 yds depending on the location, can still get my friends and family sub 100 yd shots consistently stalking and still hunting, but the rifles always run .243 to .270 .3006 and the like, loaded for the 200 yd shot if needed. The .41 bh probably won't knock down anything other than a yote until I get to Idaho for black bear, and even then, not sure if it will be my primary the first year, rifles are just not something I can give up yet, lol. The few times I've gone after pronghorn, it's been still or stalking with ranges bow worthy to 300 yds with whatever rifle I had ammo for at the time, they're not hard to hunt and the most common mistake for a deer hunter going after lopes is overestimating the range due to the size difference, but once that's overcome it's a pretty easy hunt around here.
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When I lived out West, it was scout like crazy before the season. While hunting, it was sit and glass, then try to get close.
I am OK up to 350-400; I don't consider it ethical to shoot longer than what you have practiced and have done well at.
A 7mm in the flavor of your choice will shoot flat and take anything in the lower 48 that I would hunt.
Won't shoot an animal going away, prefer heart/lung or neck
I am OK up to 350-400; I don't consider it ethical to shoot longer than what you have practiced and have done well at.
A 7mm in the flavor of your choice will shoot flat and take anything in the lower 48 that I would hunt.
Won't shoot an animal going away, prefer heart/lung or neck
CarJunkieLS1
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Here in the southeast US for deer size game and even varmint it's all still hunting. Myself and some hunting buddies we still hunt from ladder stands that we have set around the property we hunt.
For shots my absolute favorite is the high shoulder shot but of the deer I've shot the vast majority of them have been straight in between the front legs while they look at me.
For shots my absolute favorite is the high shoulder shot but of the deer I've shot the vast majority of them have been straight in between the front legs while they look at me.
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So, you shoot them and gut them with the same shot!
, makes things easier that way!. Now, just get them to die by the truck....thats easy, only shoot them on the road!So, you shoot them and gut them with the same shot!
Ive gotten heckled for shooting does on the road instead of the bucks in the ravine a couple times. Nobody complains when we can drive up and toss them in the back of the truck tho.
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A buddy of mine in NV drew a Mountain Goat tag out near Austin NV where the elevations are nasty. He shot his goat at a distance of 300 yards. Only problem it was 1500' down and 1500' up a steep shale slope to the ledge where the goat was. Goat was down at 8:30, he was finally done about 4:00 that afternoon. That trophy of his got a full body mount.
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We hunt from fixed stands that we built from boards off our 75 year old (minimum) sawmill powered by the WD 45. Wake up early, no fancy scents or miracle attractants.
I'n the morning my range is about 50 yards max. So I'll take the Great Model 8 or a lever. Evening can stretch out to 350 yards, I'll take one of my scoped rifles.
We usually do a push around noon after we leave our morning hunt. In which case, I'll bring whatever brush gun I feel like that day, usually the k98 nazi stamped mauser. I love the 8mm.
I'n the morning my range is about 50 yards max. So I'll take the Great Model 8 or a lever. Evening can stretch out to 350 yards, I'll take one of my scoped rifles.
We usually do a push around noon after we leave our morning hunt. In which case, I'll bring whatever brush gun I feel like that day, usually the k98 nazi stamped mauser. I love the 8mm.
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troy fairweather
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2 great choices for deer
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No gut shots here I've been fortunate enough to have claimed every deer I've shot in short order. Furthest one I've ever had run after the shot was ~75 yards with a 6.5 Grendel. Never have I had the "joy" of smelling a gut shot deer nor do I want to. A 7mm 120 NBT shot at ~2800 fps from the AR-15 wildcat and a 125 Accubond from a 30 Rem AR are deer killing machines. Plus recoil is mild and let's me shoot on my surgically repaired shoulder.
I've been fortunate enough to have claimed every deer I've shot in short order. Furthest one I've ever had run after the shot was ~75 yards with a 6.5 Grendel. Never have I had the "joy" of smelling a gut shot deer nor do I want to. A 7mm 120 NBT shot at ~2800 fps from the AR-15 wildcat and a 125 Accubond from a 30 Rem AR are deer killing machines. Plus recoil is mild and let's me shoot on my surgically repaired shoulder.
troy fairweather
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what 7mm wildcat u speck of id like to know im looking for small cartridges for my next gun earthier a small bolt gun or an ar upper i like 6mm and 7sNo gut shots here
For deer l generally just get up in the barn loft and pick the one I want out of the field behind the barn. I have another blind called the "Tree House" on the other end of the property.
Groundhogs we normally glass mountain meadow's.
Pigs, we use redbones to strike and bay, bulldogs to catch.
I like any hunting that involves hounds. Used to have walkers and blueticks for raccoon, long legged beagles for deer, and basset hound for rabbits, but I haven't had any coon/deer/rabbit hounds for a long while now. I especially miss the baying of the basset hounds.
Groundhogs we normally glass mountain meadow's.
Pigs, we use redbones to strike and bay, bulldogs to catch.
I like any hunting that involves hounds. Used to have walkers and blueticks for raccoon, long legged beagles for deer, and basset hound for rabbits, but I haven't had any coon/deer/rabbit hounds for a long while now. I especially miss the baying of the basset hounds.
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I don't have a style. I have ladder stands, climbers and blinds. If the conditions are right I will sneaky-snake. Last year I took a doe with my bow from a climber. Took a nice 11 point with my muzzleloader from a ground blind. Shot another doe will sneaking in thick brush and then took one that I spotted in a large field and stalked. Whatever it takes.
CarJunkieLS1
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The AR-15 Wildcat is called the 7mm Valkyrie AR. Not to be confused or related to the 224 Valkyrie in anyway. Google it and look it up the #'s you see are real and able to be reached it the real world and actual barrels that us shooters have.
Since I forgot to include this info per parameters of the op, I'll add it quick, for most varmints, anywhere north of the ribs is a fair shot, the closer they are, the more likely I am to hand out a free lobotomy. Getting real handy at body sploding fx on pdogs, but head shots aren't uncommon there either, the yotes, coons, skunks, and other furries are approached different per season, raccoons trying to claw into the attic on a summer evening are dispatched like a skunk, summer yote, or pdogs. During the fur seasons I'll try harder to keep the hide in tact with head shots or else very splosive bullets hoping for no exit, still experimenting with etips for an expanding non damaging alternative. On larger game, it's rare for me to wreck a shoulder, we can see for miles so heart lung shots and watching a 30 yd death run is no biggie, if the critter is wounded or close to somewhere I don't want it to go, the shoulder will put em down fast and hard. Almost never taken neck shots, not sure why really.
huntsman
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For Whitetail I'm a stump sitter until I get cold then it’s still hunting(walk little look much)
MCgunner
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I have two .357s and a .45 Colt Blackhawk in addition to a Ruger Old Army. The only one I've hunted with is the large frame .357 and I've taken a deer and couple of hogs with it. It is superbly accurate, putting rounds into 4" at a full 100 yards off a solid rest. Paper plates have no chance.
It's a 6.5" gun. I've taken my 4 5/8" .45 Colt out a few times, but never got a shot at anything with it. It's also very accurate and quite a bit more powerful with a 300 grain bullet moving 1200 fps. My other .357 I picked up a few years or so ago, a 9mm/.357 convertible. I wanted the 9mm to supplement my plinking since .22LR ammo was scarce at the time. It's a good gun, not as accurate as my 6.5" gun. It's a 4 5/8" small framed flat top, would make a great hiking gun if I could still hike much. I'm afraid my hiking days are over, at least LONG hikes in rough country. Heck, just hiking to the back of my place requires a couple of rest stops anymore. Seems I'm a shadow of my former self. I have a little SA collection. Some are black powder, but hey, they go bang, too.
The '58 Remmy includes a .45 ACP Howell conversion cylinder. The 6.5" .357 and the .45 Colt (the stainless engraved one) are the only ones I'd hunt with or HAVE hunted with. My favorite handgun tool is my Contender. 
Loyalist Dave
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I prefer either Still Hunting, or waiting in a ground-blind. I greatly prefer to use my Flintlock .54 caliber Pa Mountain Rifle from Cabin Creek Muzzleloaders, and I use "open iron sights". Max range is 100 yards, with a .530 all lead, patched round ball, launched with 70 grains of 3Fg. Two shots never fail, and I do mean never..., Broadside into the lungs, and quartering toward me, into the shoulder between the shoulder/leg joint and the neck. Max shot that I've ever taken, was later measured out to 110 yards. The doe dropped with 10 yards of where she was standing when hit.
In my area the choice is muzzleloader or shotgun, no rifles allowed. My flinter is very very accurate out to 100 yards, and hammers deer. Although the sights are open, I use a small slot in the rear, and a thin, silver, front blade, which shows up very well in low light, and much more precise than a factory, steel, front sight post one finds on some factory made muzzleloaders, because those tend to be so thick (like aiming over the top of a 2 x 4)
I don't do deer stands as the vast majority of "hunting accidents", especially the fatal variety documented in my state, are from fellows who have fallen out of their stand. I can't fall out of one ifin I don't climb into one..., besides I'm built like Santa Claus so probably would tempt fate if not the upper end of the safety margin if I was to get into a stand.
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Max range is 100 yards, with a .530 all lead, patched round ball, launched with 70 grains of 3Fg. Two shots never fail, and I do mean never..., Broadside into the lungs, and quartering toward me, into the shoulder between the shoulder/leg joint and the neck. Max shot that I've ever taken, was later measured out to 110 yards. The doe dropped with 10 yards of where she was standing when hit.In my area the choice is muzzleloader or shotgun, no rifles allowed. My flinter is very very accurate out to 100 yards, and hammers deer. Although the sights are open, I use a small slot in the rear, and a thin, silver, front blade, which shows up very well in low light, and much more precise than a factory, steel, front sight post one finds on some factory made muzzleloaders, because those tend to be so thick (like aiming over the top of a 2 x 4
)I don't do deer stands as the vast majority of "hunting accidents", especially the fatal variety documented in my state, are from fellows who have fallen out of their stand. I can't fall out of one ifin I don't climb into one..., besides I'm built like Santa Claus so probably would tempt fate if not the upper end of the safety margin if I was to get into a stand.
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I generally find a good spot and sit. After about an hour, I get up and meander around like a drunk person.
If I'm hunting on someone's place, I sit where they tell me.
Most shots are base of the neck attempting to exit before the diaphragm or neck shot. If it's a far shot, I try to break the shoulders.
I prefer light, fast bullets or a muzzleloader.
If I'm hunting on someone's place, I sit where they tell me.
Most shots are base of the neck attempting to exit before the diaphragm or neck shot. If it's a far shot, I try to break the shoulders.
I prefer light, fast bullets or a muzzleloader.
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I do a lot of spot and stalk. I occasionally do a spot and sprint. It is a lot like spot and stalk, but where I am trying to catch my quarry as it is already moving away, usually done into the wind with little chance of being heard. I do a fair amount of sit and spot (ambush) on places where I am expecting the animals to show up.
My hunting is 95% at night, using night optics.
My hunting is 95% at night, using night optics.
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I don't really have one method for hunting. For some reason when I'm hunting with my caplock, crossbow or handguns I like to still hunt (slipping through the woods). I also like to set up and spot/stalk critters. At other times I like nothing more than sitting in one of our stands all day and just watching the world go by. On those days I will usually bring along a book, food and something to drink. Those are definitely the days where just being out there is enough.
I hunt from a ladder stand or find what I think is a good spot and sit on my bucket.
Go out to ladder stand in the dark, hug tree for being supportive, climb in to ladder stand,
Promptly fall asleep. When I wake up if and there are any deer around I shoot one.
Just kidding about the falling asleep part.
Go out to ladder stand in the dark, hug tree for being supportive, climb in to ladder stand,
Promptly fall asleep. When I wake up if and there are any deer around I shoot one.
Just kidding about the falling asleep part.
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