The range of calibers and quality of optics these days is amazing. So what did your dad hunt with? Easy on my end; the old Rem 12 gauge auto! He carried shot and slugs; not much worried about anything over 40 yards. Kicked like a mule, too!
We had this old Savage 22 rifle that Dad said he burnt out the bore long ago with La Palma (?) ammo, which I think was corrosive. It had an ancient, skinny little 2x weaver scope. But I would wait until night as a kid and take that out when my eyes got used to the dark in the midwest and pop rabbits. Youngsters that argue the itsy-bitsy pros & cons of light gathering in today's optics need to take a look at the old stuff!
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RE: What did your dad hunt with?
He did not hunt ,he had a Win 97 to shoot starlings in the tree and a Win 62A for coon and rats in the barn . When I wanted to start hunting he handed the guns to me and said have fun.
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marlin 336 in 35 remington he bought when he was 16. a 12guage L.C. smith double barrel that his father gave him and a mosburg 22 that his uncle let him use and finnally keep
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For years (since he bought it new at age 16) my dad's primary hunting gun was his Remington 870 Wingmaster 20 gauge shotgun. Used it for everything from squirrels to deer. It's also the gun I learned to shoot on, along with an ancient Mossberg .22 semi-auto (the "Jam-O-Matic"). He still has that gun, and it'll be passed on to me when he's gone, and as long as gun-grabbing retards like Kerry don't get elected too often, my son will get it when I'm pushing up daisies.
Later he got into muzzleloading for deer, and ended up with a handy little T/C White Mtn. carbine that has killed many deer. It's the smallest and most portable ML I've ever seen (that wasn't a pistol), and while its short (for a ML) 22" bbl won't set any velocity records, it'll still do a number on a deer inside 100 yards.
My dad hunted with the old Eddiestone 30-06. He bought it at an army surplus store for 15.00. He left the old military peep sight on it for sights. He didn't hunt much as work always came first. He was not the best shot with a rifle but he could shoot a pistol with the best of them. I learned to shoot high power rifles with that old eddiestone. Shot quite a few deer with it as well.
My father is an animal lover, never could shoot one. He bought me my first gun (non-pellet gun) when I was 25, b/c he said that he wanted to be the one that gave me that even though he did not hunt, and that he regretted that he did not let me pursue it at an earlier age. I of course accepted that Browning .270.
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RE: What did your dad hunt with?
My dad hunted VC in the sixties with a M-14, other then that my dad dont give a hoot about hunting. he's says once you hunt something that shoots back, hunting animals aint fun anymore.
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What did your dad hunt with?
