I don’t know why, but I have been having a hankerin’ lately to use my CF rifle on a hunt. I am going hunting either tomorrow or Saturday afternoon (hopefully both), and feel I may be tempted beyond what I can bear to take it. It was the rifle I first used 3 years ago when I learned to hunt, and had my first 3 kills with it. The last time I hunted with it was two season ago on an overnight trip in the mountains, but it has been on my mind a lot lately.
What I bet will make it even more sinful to some of you, is that it is a semi-automatic. Yep, fathered by the M1 Garand in the 1950s, it is the M14. I just won’t be sporting the 20-round magazine as pictured below. But you won’t see me blasting off multiple rounds at a buck, simply because I can. Just because this CF rifle has more firepower than a muzzleloader doesn’t mean I don’t think that the one shot, one kill principle doesn’t still apply.
So, to my Team 1 compadres, if I kill a monster tomorrow, hopefully Chet’s 8,000 points will be enough to cover us. But maybe the committee will permit the points if I only use one bullet. After all, I feel a greater advantage using the Omega since it is scoped and the M14 is not.
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"Well if it ain't loaded and c0cked, it don't shoot." -Rooster Cogburn
I brought my Browning B-78 25-06 to the lease last weekend and shot three rounds on the range to check the scope (1/2" center to center at 100 yards). But it sat in the camp while I carried my Omega X7 to the stand. But I was tempted. Really tempted.
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My wife says I'm totally nuts, but I think I'm Semisane.
Things I've Learned: (1) It's not possible to please everyone, but quite easy to piss everyone off. (2) If you love animals as I do, then you're not a vegetarian. (3) There's no need to act stupid, even if you're very good at it. (4) If you eat right and exercise, don't smoke or drink, you're going to die anyway.
if it makes you happy... aim true and bring home the venison.
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"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, a total wreck, screaming Yahoo, with a big smile on your face."
I know the feeling. I wanted badly to get a deer last year with my newly scoped Knight Revolution. The one day I took the .30-06 to the blind I got my only deer of the season. So this year I am trying to stick with the BP guns. But had I had my .30-06 tonight, I most likely would have a coyote on the ground. Instead I missed with my wife's TC Encore which I don't shoot much. Oh well, you gotta use what you feel like using so I say go for it.
I Hunt Only with a MLer through our Gun Season, and this year for the first time we can use a Rifle in our County during our Gun Season. All My Buddies were so Excited that they could use there Rifles they just about had a Stroke! They really Razzed me and said I was really foolish now for not using a Rifle, they said you were stupid for not using a Rifle for when we could use a Shotgun, but now you've lost your mind for using a MLer when we can use a Rifle.....They all used Rifles for our Gun Season, I used My Mler...My Wife and I are even with the Rifle Hunters so far in our Group, they did'nt Kill anymore Deer with there Rifles than with there Shotguns or Me with My 1 Shot Mler.
Most Deer are shot at 75 yds and under, and if you think that just because you can shoot further you'll have a better advantage and get more deer, your wrong, well all My Buddies were proven wrong anyways. If your a Good Hunter a Mler is all you need for Hunting.
(BP)
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Those who hammer their Guns into plows will plow for those who do not. Thomas Jefferson
Chet – LOL…I know. It IS premeditated! But I haven’t done it yet, but both guns are in the car. I may pull a Semi and grab the Omega at the last second.
ADV – I had two ML kills last season and one so far this season, so maybe I’d regret it if I didn’t get one with the rifle this year. Who knows. And maybe I’ll get one with the rifle and still regret it…who knows! LOL
BP – You are funny…and a bit full of yourself! I just have an itch to use my CF rifle…that’s all! And if you would have actually read my post, you would have realized that 1) I haven’t hunted with a rifle in a couple of years 2) I feel that using the rifle is actually a bit of a disadvantage since my ML is scoped and the rifle is not, and 3) I still believe in one shot, one kill, regardless of the firearm!!
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"Well if it ain't loaded and c0cked, it don't shoot." -Rooster Cogburn
Chet - I know exactly what you mean. Though I hope I don't! And, I should mention, that is a picture of a real M14 (you can see the full auto switch on the receiver directly above the trigger). Mine has the shorter, 18" barrel and a fiberglass stock. I like the full-sized with wood stock better, but for the purpose of this rifle (which you well guessed), the short barrel and fiberglass stock is better suited.
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"Well if it ain't loaded and c0cked, it don't shoot." -Rooster Cogburn
Forgive me, for I am about to sin...
After all, I feel a greater advantage using the Omega since it is scoped and the M14 is not.
